HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Daniel Shays, Electoral College, 6 Years
Document Summary
Building the new republic: america"s first 25 years. Was a united states in name only had yet to fully unite themselves under one common government. A lose confederation of 13 states that were umbrella"d under the name of the united states. Weakness of articles of confederation: western frontier lands. The states who didn"t have any land claims suggested that a national dominion be created of the non-american populated land and that it be turned over to the new government. This stalled the ratification of the articles of confederation for some years. Any land that the states volunteered would become part of the national domain land is ceded over time to the. Congress had no money to pay off its debt. To pay for the revolutionary war it had borrowed money from france and had started printing their own money this devalued its currency.
