The American Revolution is now over and the colonists are free to run their land by their own rules. The Sons of Liberty and everyone else in the country now have the dawning task of forming a unified and rational country. In order to achieve this goal of this new nation they were going to need rules to govern their states by. Therefore in November 1777, they held the very first national constitutional convention to discuss issues as such. The results from the meeting seemed to be lucrative and as a result of the meeting we have the establishment of the Articles of Confederation four years later in 1781. At last, we have laws and now everything will be on the up and up right…um not exactly.
We would get a first glimpse of the disaster …show more content…
Rebels of course would join with rebels in conversation about how they did not like how the new government was being run. Now, the question is, what do rebels do when they don’t agree with something? Of course, they rebels started a rebellion which was led by Daniel Shays in Massachusetts. Shay enlisted 2,000 men with him to march down to the capital of Massachusetts, Springfield, demanding state assistance for their debt. As a result, the state militia was called on the rebels resulting in three farmers losing their life. The rebellion would be defeated five months later but the fighting made everyone realize that the country needed a stronger national government.
Yes, the Articles of Confederation experiment was a failure and it was due to each state wanting to satisfy their own needs even at the expense of another states issue really. It didn’t unite the country as it was intended but rather divided it. They needed a document that would truly unite the country behind one purpose. Then at a meeting in 1787 fifty-five men would arrive in Philadelphia with that purpose alone; to construct the Constitution. After the convention, the delegates now had to go back to their home states and convince the people that this new document would answer their entire
We would get a first glimpse of the disaster …show more content…
Rebels of course would join with rebels in conversation about how they did not like how the new government was being run. Now, the question is, what do rebels do when they don’t agree with something? Of course, they rebels started a rebellion which was led by Daniel Shays in Massachusetts. Shay enlisted 2,000 men with him to march down to the capital of Massachusetts, Springfield, demanding state assistance for their debt. As a result, the state militia was called on the rebels resulting in three farmers losing their life. The rebellion would be defeated five months later but the fighting made everyone realize that the country needed a stronger national government.
Yes, the Articles of Confederation experiment was a failure and it was due to each state wanting to satisfy their own needs even at the expense of another states issue really. It didn’t unite the country as it was intended but rather divided it. They needed a document that would truly unite the country behind one purpose. Then at a meeting in 1787 fifty-five men would arrive in Philadelphia with that purpose alone; to construct the Constitution. After the convention, the delegates now had to go back to their home states and convince the people that this new document would answer their entire