state claims to western territories
The claim of 7 of the 13 states to immense tracts of western lands
The smaller states wanted equal representation in Congress with the larger states.
Aside from the Revolutionary War being underway, the problem with the Articles was that they required unanimousratification, i.e. by all thirteen states. This was not accomplished until 1781.Most of the states did not agree with it unless they benefited from it, and they did not care how it affected the other states. Maryland especially wanted Virginia and New York to drop their claims to the Ohio Valley.
Yes, but the intervention was delayed for six months to get the necessary UN approval.
The Continental Congress of the United states felt the articles of confederation were not working and ratified a new constitution during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. The electoral college unanimously elected Washington as 1st president under the constitution.The United States of America was actually formed on March 1, 1781 with the adoption of The Articles of Confederation by Maryland whose delegates delayed its ratification over a western border dispute with Virginia and New York. Upon the March 1 ratification the President of the Continental Congress officially became President of the United States in Congress Assembled.Note: Washington was not the first president under the previously ratified articles of confederation, there were several before him, most notably John Hanson.
slavery
The disposition of wester land
Land of west or Appalachian montains
The claim of 7 of the 13 states to immense tracts of western lands
The smaller states wanted equal representation in Congress with the larger states.
Aside from the Revolutionary War being underway, the problem with the Articles was that they required unanimousratification, i.e. by all thirteen states. This was not accomplished until 1781.Most of the states did not agree with it unless they benefited from it, and they did not care how it affected the other states. Maryland especially wanted Virginia and New York to drop their claims to the Ohio Valley.
It was delayed because of the writers' strike.
Yes, but the intervention was delayed for six months to get the necessary UN approval.
The Continental Congress of the United states felt the articles of confederation were not working and ratified a new constitution during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. The electoral college unanimously elected Washington as 1st president under the constitution.The United States of America was actually formed on March 1, 1781 with the adoption of The Articles of Confederation by Maryland whose delegates delayed its ratification over a western border dispute with Virginia and New York. Upon the March 1 ratification the President of the Continental Congress officially became President of the United States in Congress Assembled.Note: Washington was not the first president under the previously ratified articles of confederation, there were several before him, most notably John Hanson.
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he was delayed for about 3 years because Spain was preparing to invade England