Chapters 6&7 Assignment # 5 1. Analyze and evaluate the Articles of Confederation. What were the strengths and weaknesses of the articles? Under the Articles of Confederation the Congress had the authority to negotiate foreign treaties but no economic or military power to enforce terms. Not able to regulate commerce or set tariffs they had no leverage to open restricted trading empires of France, Spain, and Britain. 2. List and discuss the various economic problems encountered by the newly formed …showed first 75 words of 569 total…

…showed last 75 words of 569 total…the Mississippi River. In the exchange for the Americans to surrender they wanted to be able to navigate the Mississippi River for thirty years and be granted significant trading "concessions" in the Spanish Empire. This would then benefit pressed merchants of the northern states. They accepted this offer. Fragile and powerless, unsolved problems and debts. Looking everywhere that is what you saw when finally the constitution had set them free of all of this anarchy.