Factors leading to theConstitutional Convention

Boundary disputes between states

Poor foreign relations

Unpaid war debts

Falling crop prices

Shays’s Rebellion

Led by Daniel Shays in Mass.

Farmers were heavily in debt after the Revolutionary War

The Mass. government began taking their farms for payment

In 1786, Shays called together 2,000 angry farmers and attacked the court house at Springfield.

The state government raised an army and ended the rebellion

The significance of Shays’s rebellion:

the Articles of Confederation had given the national government too little power

The Results of the discontent and of Shays’s Rebellion

Americans were worried about the government’s ability to maintain order

James Madison and Alexander Hamilton called for a convention to consider revising the Articles of Confederation

States were invited to special convention to “revise” the articles

Delegates from 12 states met in Independence Hall in Philadelphia

Delegates agreed to create a new constitution