Question

What were the two biggest problems facing the new federal government after the American Revolution?

- how to elect a president

- how to control lands in the western part of the country

- how to repay war debts

- how to negotiate new trade agreements

Answer 1

- how to control lands in the western part of the country
- how to repay war debts

The new multistate confederation and its weak central government faced the problems of how to repair war debts and how to control lands in the western part of the country.