The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Under the Articles of Confederation, the federal government had the power to manage foreign affairs, the power to regulate currency, and the power to settle disputes between the states.
Those were difficult years for the central government of the United States. The Articles of Confederation were considered to be the first Constitution in the United States. However, the real power was in the states of the Union, not in the federal government. The states were the ones that could collect money through taxation. If the central government needed money, it had to ask the states for it. It left the federal government in a weak position.