What Are The Causes Of The Articles Of Confederation Dbq

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The Articles of Confederation, which were ratified in 1781, provided the first form of a national government in the United States. In 1787, a convention was called to revise the Articles. The convention developed an entirely new form of government as outlined in the constitution, which sought to address the Weaknesses of the Articles. America encountered many problems and struggled greatly while rewriting the new plan of government that required many compromises to complete. There were many problems to the Articles that made it a weak form of government. As seen in document 1, Washington explains to James Madison how without a strong central government disorders like Shay’s Rebellion cannot be prevented. A weak central government posed a major problem not …show more content…
In document 4 it is apparent on which states would want either equal representation (such as Delaware) or a population based representation (such as Virginia) for the legislative. To comply between both plans the “Great Compromise” was created. As seen in document 6, Congress was split into the senate and the House of Representatives. Document 6 supports my idea on how Congress took ideas from both plans such as; the senate has equal representation from all states, and the House of Representatives has representation based off of a state’s population. In document 5 the author states “according to their respective numbers…adding the whole number of free persons… three-fifths of all other persons…” This is an explanation of the 3/5 compromise, in which 3/5 of a slave was counted towards a states population while determining how many representatives would be in the House of Representatives. This compromise shows how little America valued a slave, not only were they treated horrible, but they were not even counted as a whole person. This may have lead slaves to feel very
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