Articles of Confederation
By: Joshua Wallace
Advantages:
-Limited Power of Central Government
-Division of power
-Federalism put into place in US
Disadvantages:
-Almost NO central government
-Government had no power to protect itself (Shay's rebellion)
-States held almost all of the power
-The states had different currencies and were very dysfunctional
Reason for the Articles of Confederation
-After having to deal with the insanely powerful central government of Britain, the colonists ran as far away as they could from a powerful central government. This led to a lack of unification.