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After much debate,the Continental Congress approved The Articles of Confederation in hopes to creat a strong central goverment.
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After the our victory in the revolution the economy started bad as we did not have currency and could not understand the different worths of different state money
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With America suffering an economic depression Daniel Shays led a rebellion and proved the Articles of Confederation did not work.
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Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance and set up a goverment in the Northwest Territory
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Delegates from each state except Rhode Island met in Philadelphia to revise the articles of Confederation. Many heroes of the revolution including Benjamine Franklin attended the meeting.
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After tensions flaring Roger Sherman of Connecticut worked out a compromise between the two plans
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The North and South had disagreements had disagreements about whether slaves shuld be called citizens or not. Now only three fifths of the slve population are called citizens
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The Constitution was finally written and a new union was born
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Some people wanted a strong national goverment while others feared it would give the goverment more power than the people
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Our goverment wanted the nation to be like the roman empire in it's glory days and also used the british magna carta as an example of rights
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Federalist wanted the constitution while antifederalist thought the president would behave like a king. To meet these ends the Bill of Rights was added to the constitution