Apush Dbq Research Paper

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1781-1789 was a very important time in the early portion of the United States development. After having recently rebelled against Great Britain, the colonies had just become a unified group of states. The new government that had been formed to unify them was the Articles of Confederation. This was ratified by the states in 1781 before the Revolutionary war had ended. The Articles had provided the now unified states with a completely inadequate and ineffective government. This was shown most in areas of Foreign relations, Economics, and politics.

Struggles between Political parties tended to bring about tension in the early government, which lessened its effectiveness. Rawlin Lowndes reflected the attitudes before the Constitution was made