Why, a Few Years Before the Constitutional Convention Was Held

question 9

Multiple Choice

Why, a few years before the Constitutional Convention was held, had delegates from five states called on Congress to, at a later time, send commissioners to Philadelphia to make adjustments to the Articles of Confederation?

• A) The country's elites had been shocked into action by Shays's Rebellion, in which an angry mob of farmers almost took over Massachusetts's state government offices.
• B) Recent experience had shown that the national government was now strong enough to make the creation of a stronger central government an attainable goal.
• C) The new nation's weak international position and domestic problems, linked to a weak central government, and radicals gaining control in some states as elites declined.
• D) The Articles of Confederation, although working fairly well, had been hastily put together after the Revolution, and just needed updating.

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