Over many years, the United States Government has worked together to create an even bigger and better government than before. Our government has made some amazing decisions, as well as some very poor ones. Two major events that occurred back in the late 1700s were Shay's Rebellion and the Articles of Confederation. Both events were very harmful to our government we needed to come up with something quick before it fell apart. That's when we had the incredible idea of the Constitution.

For as long as we can remember, the United States was getting controlled by Great Britain. They began putting taxes on the American colonists and provoked us deliberately. We had no voice in representation and our colonists were getting sick of being controlled by another country. This wasn't fair to the United States. We were not just going to stand around and have another country annihilate us. That's when we decided to fight for our independence against Great Britain.

It all started around 1776 when the second continental congress voted to declare independence. The colonists finally were able to revolt from England and be our own country with our own type of Government. On July 4th, 1776 Thomas Jefferson drafted The Declaration of Independence which was a document stating that people have the right to overthrow a government that is not …show more content…
The articles were created to temporarily hold the United States government together and keep the states from forming their own foreign democracy. However, they did not give enough central government power and gave too much power to the state governments. Unfortunately, the articles made everything go out of control with no president or judiciary to lead the government. The need for a stronger Federal government soon became clear and eventually led to the Constitutional Convention in