Okay so the question is "From 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation provided the United States with an effective government." Using the documents and your knowledge of the period, evaluate this statment. We have in interpret this question from the following Documents- Document A Letter from the Rhode Island Assembly to Congress (November 30, 1782), Document B its statistics from the year 1770-1782 if estimaed Market value of US exports to GB in thousands and Estimated US population, Document C Letter from Delegate Jospeh Jones of Virginia to George Washington (Feb 27, 1783), Document D John Jay's Instructions to the US Minister to GB (March 7, 1785), John Blum, et. al., The National Experience, third edition, Document F John Jay's speech to Congress on Negotiation w/Spain's Minister Diego de Gardoqui, Document G Letter from John Jay to George Washington and Document H a report of Rawlin Lowndes' speech to the S. Carolina House of Representatives, debating the adoption of the federal constituiton. Okay sorry that was lond just thought I would give you some information. I was wondering if you could give I can have some help on a thesis and some information that I should write in the essay. Thank you
:D Heather B.
Well, I'd look at all the documents, graphs, and other junk and try to decipher what each one is about. Then see what all or most of them have in common. Once I find that, I'll have my thesis and my essay.
and it looks like it might be a bunch of graphs so I'd pay particular attention to that. If it is consistant with the other graphs, then I'd put to and two together and say "the articles helped the economy because George bought more Rum from Jack because so-and-so." blah.
But anyways, the articles is mainly more like states rights, so under the article states can thrive and through this they are in charge of their own imports and exports, who they want to trade with, etc without worry for a federal tax and they can make their tax however they want it. Just a hint.
capitalization? who the heck came up with this horrible rule?!
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Well, I didn't think the Articles made an effective gov't bec. the central gov't couldn't tax the ppl. With such a huge debt from the rev. War, this was a huge problem. When states raised the prop. tax, farmers grew angry and rebelled. Howver, since the national gov't couldn't raise an army, the Mass. private militia had to break up Shay's Rebellion. That showed how weak and non-effective the national gov't was.
It wasn't powerful on purpose. The guys that wrote it wanted to give the state sovereign powers and they only have a central gov't that is basically just there. It was only a matter of time for it to collaspe.
capitalization? who the heck came up with this horrible rule?!
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[=DarkOrange][=2]my ap equilavent courses:
ib art; ib math sl; ib english