Confederation Successes

Successes of the Confederation
November 8, 2011

On June 7, 1776, the second continental congress voted to join the colonies into a confederation, which uniting the 13 states and forming an alliance. After few years of debating Congress accepted the Articles of Confederation, which is the first form of a constitution that United States had before the creation of the official constitution, by 1781, all thirteen states joined in the confederation.
The Confederation had many financial weaknesses, Foreign Weaknesses and Domestic weaknesses and it eventually leads to a failure, however, it did have few successful things. The Confederation supervised the American Revolutionary army, and was able to defeat Great Britain. Britain was one of the…show more content…
The treaty of Paris made United States in control of all the land east of the Mississippi River and north territory of Louisiana and Florida. Many states, Such as New York and Virginia tried to claim parts of this huge abundant land. When New York and Virginia gave their land to the government, so did the others. Now the lands above the Ohio River (Northwest Territory) all belonged to the hands of the national government, they needed a system of governing and developing this land. The government first tried using a method called Ordinance of 1784 which is a far sighted idea given by Thomas Jefferson that proposed making ten new states using the new land and each will be treated equally as other states. In addition, Jefferson also proposed banning slavery. However, this became a complete failure because of the opposition to slavery and the fact that idea is too far sighted. That is why the confederation came up with the new idea the Land Ordinance of 1785. This was more realistic, cautious and did not touch on thorny political questions. It mainly focused on settling the territory. The ordinance divided the new lands into orderly townships which then was used for sale and development. Each township consisted of thirty-six sections (also called lots) of one square mile or six hundred and forty acres. Each section would sell one acre for a dollar. All the money gained from the sale from section 16 would be used…show more content…
The successful factors were necessary in the United States today it helped making United States independent, it helped when developing the new settlements and it made the powerless government of United States into one of the most powerful government in the world.

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