... problems when dealing with foreign policy. Also, the government could not raise enough money to support its armies because it could not tax. The Articles of Confederation were not completely useless, however, it did not provide an effective government which was needed to deal with the country's problems and become a powerful nation. When dealing with foreign nations ... problems within this new country could have easily been prevented if the government had just enforced a tax upon its people. Even though the Articles of Confederation protected individual's liberties and rights because ...

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... Revolution, the fledgling new nation of America had created the Articles of Confederation. Out of much fear, the Articles tried to stay as far away from a strong federal government as possible. They had tried to make sure the federal government will stay weak in the affairs of the Confederation. Thereby the Articles allowed few concessions to the Congress. The Articles of Confederation had been mostly an ineffective ... government in the aspects of foreign relations and commerce; however it did provide for an extraordinary system to work with the Northwest Territory. ... after surveying...

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... money. The Massachusetts legislature had raised the taxes, and the farmers could not afford to pay them. Foreclosures on the land and property of the farmers began and the county courts started to close on the properties. Many farmers started to get frustrated and stated that they cannot ... the militia, but they had no luck getting this cleared up with the farmers. One reason was because the state militia was a collection of citizens of the town, so if they had to shoot anyone, they would be shooting at their own family, friends, and neighbors. So calling ... a government that had a con...

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... land masses as well as rivers and fresh water lakes. These resources provided the gateway for financial success of the new country. Exploration, fisheries, mining and plantations quickly fueled the success of white entrepreneurial colonists formerly held back by British law. Unfortunately, the Treaty of Paris, the Articles of Confederation nor the Declaration of Independence offered the same opportunities to the nation's other residents. Native Americans, many ... of whom sided with the British in hopes of stopping colonial expansion onto native land, had large tribal territories relinq...

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... Empire to pay off its war debts, the British imposing more and more regulations on the colonies, to the ever diminishing, self-governance of the colonies. Over time, these factors pushed the colonies to declare themselves independent from Great Britain, and to fight for their freedom from them ... to where they were to be appointed by the king, taking away the colonists right to elect their own officials. As a direct result of the coercive acts, or as they quickly became known, the intolerable acts, the colonists formed the First Continental Congress. This assembly did not ... to them....

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... , the poor, women, and Native Americans still could not vote, nor did their standings in society change. After the Revolutionary War, the Articles of Confederation formed the federal government of the United States. The Articles of Confederation provided for a relatively weak central government that gave more authority to individual states. This made it a more democratic government, giving more power directly ... to the voters. The different problems with the Articles of Confederation tended to hurt wealthier citizens. A United States government with no money could not pay back its loans...

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... Second Continental Congress, and finally leading to the Articles of the Confederation, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution. After some men were killed at Lexington and Concord, the Second Continental Congress came together to form a semblance of a "temporary" national government. This evolution of a congress is clear as it eventually formed the Articles of Confederation after the war. Even though the monarchy of England left a hatred for a strong centralized government ... , this type of government was necessary to control and aid the nation. The Revolution set in the m...

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... they had not improved their relations in North America, where their colonies laid side by side. Though this originally began in 1690 with the massacre of colonists in New York by the French and Indians. Within a seventy-year span, four colonial wars were fought, the King William's War, Queen ... future. Then the Revolutionary War began on April 19, 1775. It started with the first "shots heard all around the world" at the Battle of Lexington and Concord. After this battle, Congress met a second time in Philadelphia. This was known as the Second Continental Congress. They met on May ... th...

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... they had not improved their relations in North America, where their colonies laid side by side. Though this originally began in 1690 with the massacre of colonists in New York by the French and Indians. Within a seventy-year span, four colonial wars were fought, the King William's War, Queen ... future. Then the Revolutionary War began on April 19, 1775. It started with the first "shots heard all around the world" at the Battle of Lexington and Concord. After this battle, Congress met a second time in Philadelphia. This was known as the Second Continental Congress. They met on May ... th...

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... which 13 British Colonies in North America declared their independence from their mother country and successfully resisted British Military pressure for seven years (1775-1783). Even before the Declaration of Independence was signed, British troops began arriving to put down the rebellion. These troops would not leave for five years. In 1775, the first military conflicts between the ... during a surprise move on the British and their Hessian mercenaries, Washington captured British garrisons at Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey taking weapons and ammunition. American troops defeated com...

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... in Philadelphia. He took a big part in the making of the Constitution. As a hero of the Revolutionary War, he was elected for the first presidency. On April 30, 1789 Washington was elected the First President of the United States. The new government had millions of dollars in debt, which the Congress of the Articles of Confederation was unable to pay. Alexander Hamilton proposed that the ... government would assume wartime debts of the States. Along with that proposal, borrowing twelve million from other countries and paying ... France and England. Washington also set up a judiciary sy...

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... Hancock's main goal while in the Provincial Congress was to promote the patriot cause, and defeat the dictatorship that was England. During the time Hancock was President of the Provincial Congress, he was elected into the Second Continental Congress in 1775. Hancock was elected as president due to his involvement with colonial cause up until this ... when bad health caused a resignation. With Hancock's great wealth, and Sam Adams" great leadership, the duo became unstoppable. Hancock was able to fund the actions of the Son's of Liberty, and Adams was able to lead them to victory. With t...

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