Question

The Articles of Confederation set up a government in which each colony, regardless of size or population, had one vote. What does this suggest about how the colonies were approaching their new national government, their relationship to this government, and their relationship to one another?

Answer 1

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Although there are no options attached, we can say the following.

What this suggests about how the colonies were approaching their new national government and the relations with each other is that the states were sovereign but also neither state was more powerful or had more presence in the government than the others. This also meant that the states were seen as a separate entity, not a real nation or a united nation.

The other big problem was that the Articles of Confederation left a weak central government that practically did not have any important power. The central government just had the power to run a post office or deal with the Native American Indian tribe's issues.

That is why the delegates met at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to create the new Constitution.