Description
One of the questions that the Revolution left unanswered was about government. After throwing out the British and their King, what would Americans replace them with and what role would ordinary people play in politics? We’ll examine some of the answers that Americans gave to those questions in the first decades after the war. We’ll look at the state constitutions passed between 1776 and 1781. Then we’ll look at the Congress of the Confederation, the national government that held the union together for a few years after the war. Next, we’ll look at how and why officials decided to replace that system of governance with a new federal Constitution in 1787, and then we’ll take a quick look at the presidency of George Washington.
