• Articles were signed and put into effect.

    This is the date the Articles were signed and put into effect, the first "government" of the untined states (at the time 13 colonies)
  • Period: to

    Articles - constitiution

  • Wanted a weak government backfired..

    When the gov. started off wanting a weak central government, the states went off by themselves and eslablished many unfair laws.
  • Undiecided

    States fought and had small "Wars" on land and property lines. Government started trying to find new ways to do things.
  • Constituional Meetings started,

    Secrete meetings started to form the constitiution in philidelphia.
  • Came out with constitution,

    On September 17, 1787, after four months of secret meetings, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention emerged from their Philadelphia meetingroom with a new plan of government–the U.S. Constitution.
  • Constitution took effect

    The constituition took full effect, country now ran by.