The correct answer is number 3) Congress had no power to raise a military separate from the states.
Why was keeping a continental army difficult under the Articles of Confederation?
Answer:
Congress had no power to raise a military separate from the states.
The Articles of Confederation was the first Constitution of the United States. Under these Articles, the central government was weak. Congress had many limitations. Among others, it could not raise an army and could not raise money. In case it needed some, Congress had to ask for it to the states that we're the ones that remained sovereign and could collect money through taxation.
Abraham Lincoln did on March 3 1865
After civil war the slaves that were released needed jobs so they worked as share copers by keeping up the fields for the owner and they would either be paid or get a certain amount of the crop.
