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all thirteen states had ratified, or approved, the Articles of Confedration.
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the Confederation signed a peace treaty with Britain, which recognized American independence. Land acquired from Britain
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armed groups of farmers marched to several courts and closed them down, preventing them from hearing foreclosure proceedings.
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the national government owed $40 million to foreign governments and to American soldiers who were still unpaid after the war.
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a few months after Shays’s Rebellion, delegates from the states began meeting to propose changes to the Articles of Confederation to help regulate trade and to make the national government more effective.
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the Constitutional Convention began the daunting task of crafting a new system of government.
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the Constitution was complete.
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The Constitution went into effect
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Congress met for the first time in Federal Hall in New York City, the temporary capital.
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Congress approved 12 amendments and the states ratified 10 of them