AP American History DBQ: Articles of Confederation

Economically, the articles were a disaster. This is most evident in document B, which best shows how the articles ineffectiveness affected the United States’s economy. This was due to the inability to regulate interstate commerce, which led to disputes between states and inability to regulate trade with foreign nations to protect American business. Another way that the Articles affected the American economy was due to the fact that it did not allow the government to levy or collect taxes, which made congress only able to

Also, the lack of ability to deal with foreign affairs made it nearly impossible to get Spain to allow the United States to negotiate for the navigation of the Mississippi River, document F, which would have had a great and positive effect on the national economy and industry.

Another weakness of the Articles of Confederation were that there was no way for it to enforce national laws due to a lack of a national court system. This made it so that each individual state court could interpret national laws any which way that they wanted to . this made it extremely difficult to get each state to abide by what was intended in the laws. This also made it almost impossible to enforce treaties that were made with the British. This is shown in document D, where John Jay can only ask the US minister to Great Britain to respectfully ask for all British troops to clear out of the American nation.

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