Many economic issues and enlightenment issues were some of the key factors, which led to the American Revolution. In 1763, after the seven yearlong French Indian war, numerous acts were imposed on American colonist. The colonist fired back with rebellious events. These acts were taxing the colonist on printed materials; letters and newspapers, silk, lead, molasses, tea and others. The tax charges effected the merchant class by cutting into the excess profit and effected the poor heavily because they could barley afford to live aside from payments of tax. Colonist tried to rebel by not paying for tax on printed materials and made the Stamp Act, the taxation of printed materials a failed tax act. 
The Boston Tea Party, however wasn’t quit the success as The Stamp Act. The Sons of Liberty dumped 45 tons of tea into the Boston port and their rebellious dumping led to the Intolerable Acts, which included colonist to pay for the 45 tons of tea dumped. Not only did the colonist have to pay for the tea dumped, it lead to the Quartering Act which sent soldiers and troops to watch the ports and soldiers moved into the homes of the colonist. This standing army was a system wide crackdown to where people had no say. Colonies were not to rebel anymore and were to do what Britain told them. The soldiers were being paid from the colonist paid taxes, but it wasn’t much. The low paid soldiers found jobs from merchants and continued to take jobs from the colonist; this had a huge negative impact on the income of the colonist. 
1770-1780 was a formative period in America. The 1770’s the merchant class began to realize and conjugate that thing weren’t working and independence wasn’t quite a solution yet. In 1781 a government system for thirteen states created The Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation confused colonist because it didn’t provide a strong structured government, states were loosely knit groups with weak central authority. The confusion of colonist was understandable since the Articles were created because they were sick of the strict British demands. These were very rough times for colonist, things began to unfold and colonist weren’t sure of what would happen next and they weren’t sure if the British would ever leave. Colonist of all thirteen states had no unified currency where money wasn’t good in different states; no army and legislature had any power to tax. A big issue with trade rose with no unified currency, interstate and national trade was made almost impossible. The thirteen states were clearly not “united”. 
Debts were owed and to be paid. Americans tried to collect these owed debts before they had to pay theirs, but with no common currency and fighting in a war for their Independence it was impossible to pay these debts. 1787 James Madison and fellow lawyers from Philadelphia realized serious problems and called a convention to end the Articles. Madison was politically savvy and was seen as the “big guy” of the convention. Fifty-five delegates showed up, most who didn’t come were farmers who didn’t agree. The convention created a bi-cameral legislature, one based on population with each state will have representatives and each state gets two senates. Opportunities were now equally given to small and big states with equal amount of senates and representatives. Racial compromises were a topic discussed at the convention. Both the North and the South agreed blacks were “real” people, but the South wanted to count every three out of five slaves to possibly get more representatives due to a larger population. The North strongly disagreed with this sneaky scam by saying blacks aren’t equal. The slaves clearly received nothing from this compromise beside great discrimination. This was the start of the making of the Constitution. 
The Constitution built a strong government, well in my opinion, a more organized government for the men who created the Constitution. Charles Beard argues that the Founding Fathers intended to provide for their own personal well being in writing the Constitution. The authors of the constitution were elites who rejected democracy and desired a federal government that would protect and promote its own economic interests. Beard mentioned four groups that were not recognized or represented in the Constitutional convention: slaves, indentured servants, women and men without property. The Constitution did not show any interests of any individual in the four stated groups. Women were not able to vote until the year 1920 and African Americans weren’t free from slavery till after the Civil war. 
I have to say I agree with Beard on high level. After reading the interests and backgrounds of the men who created the Constitution, I believe it was created for the benefits of selfish men. Why weren’t women or African Americans allowed to vote or be free? Well pretty much all because men with money and some authority and power said so.