After the Revolution, the fledgling new nation of America had created the Articles of Confederation. ... They had tried to make sure the federal government will stay weak in the affairs of the Confederation. ... The Articles of Confederation had been mostly an ineffective government in the aspects of foreign relations and commerce; however it did provide for an extraordinary system to work with the Northwest Territory. ... The system was so effective that aspects of it were used even past the destruction of the Articles of Confederation. ... The Articles of Confederation themselves, set up f...

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These conditions required them to obey the Articles of Confederation, to help pay the federal debts when asked to by the Congress, to maintain a republican government, and to prohibit slavery (Annals of America, pg. 2). ...

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