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**Essential Question: Why did the Founding Fathers need to rewrite the Articles of Confederation?**

**The Articles of Confederation ~ The original government of the United States of America.**

When the founding fathers signed the Declaration of independence, they also had to create a working government to govern the 13 newly independent states. They wrote the Articles of Confederations, which would guide our country through the Revolutionary War and the years following it. The Articles of Confederation allowed the states to govern themselves with little input from the federal government. After 10 years the founding fathers could already see cracks in the foundation of the United States of America. They meet in 1787 in Philadelphia to discuss the problems that the Articles of Confederation were causing and how to fix them.

Video ~ Reasons why the Articles of Confederation failed. =media type="youtube" key="MDYKsD4c7oc" height="346" width="616" align="left"=

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