The Continental Congress meets to debate and adopt the Articles of Confederation. The Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia to debate the Articles of Confederation: the document that will ...
The Articles were weak by design and left Congress unable to pay soldiers in the Continental Army. It took the Continental Congress 526 days to fashion the Articles of Confederation and another 39 ...
Every American knows about George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, but what about John Hanson, Elias Boudinot and Thomas Mifflin? Some historians point to the latter three as the country’s ...