MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
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This article declares the purpose of the union, which is to protect the states and their well-bring.
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This article gives states all the powers not given to Congress.
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The article names the new country.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777. This document served as the United States’ first constitution. It was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789 when the present-day Constitution went into effect.
Detailed explanation-2: -Article 8: Each state government had to raise money to give to the new central government. Article 9: Only the new central government had the power to make declare war, and make peace with foreign countries.
Detailed explanation-3: -From May 25 to September 17, 1787, 55 delegates from 12 states convened in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention. Rhode Island was the only state that refused to send representatives to the convention, which assumed as its primary task the revision or replacement of the Articles of Confederation.
Detailed explanation-4: -America’s first constitution, the Articles of Confederation, gave the Confederation Congress the power to make rules and request funds from the states, but it had no enforcement powers, couldn’t regulate commerce, or print money.