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Pros And Cons Of The Articles Of Confederation

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The Articles of Confederation were developed to unite all of the 13 colonies as a nation, rather than having them all govern their selves based off of population. The Articles of Confederation had created a very loose alliance of the 13 colonies or states as they will later be referred to. The Articles of Confederation also had been created due to the fact that the Declaration of Independence never stated the word, “nation” and this led others to believe after independence had been officially stated that the colonies would attempt to govern themselves. Furthermore, the Articles of Confederation were completely necessary in its making because the Congress had to lay a base government down for the colonies or an “example” government. The first thing the Articles of Confederation provided would be the fact it gave the states the ability to retain their freedom, …show more content…

The first of these would have to be the most important, to me, this reason would be the fact that it had established a weak national government which contained only one component, a one-house legislature. The states all had 1 vote that counted toward approval of new Continental Congress members no matter the population of the given state each had one vote and were equal. This led to problems because this meant that a lower population state such as Rhode Island had the same power of electing government officials as Virginia. The revolt started when the farmers, which in most cases had been former soldiers, got angry at the state because demands were being made that they had to pay their taxes even though they were struggling. This led the farmers to demand that the state print more paper money, along with giving them more time to pay their “unjust” taxes owed on their land. Farmers were also angered by the property qualifications being raised, this caused poorer peoples to lose their political power. All of this led to Shays

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