Crop failures, Insurance and banking failure, drops in cotton prices, rapid speculation in land, sudden plunges in the stock market and currency and credit crises etc caused the economic panics in 1800s. The United States of America during this period was very young nation and thus these panics devastated her economy.
One reason the US Constitution was adapted instead of the Articles of Confederation was because D) Shay's Rebellion revealed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
The Articles of Confederation, America's first constitution, was extremely ineffective. Due to fear of a tyrannical central government, the Americans made a system where the state governments have almost all the power and the central government had very little. This was shown in Shay's Rebellion, as the federal government could not raise an army to stop it from happening.
As for the second question, the accomplishment that would complete the chart would be All of the former Confederate states were readmitted to the Union.
Answer: Congress is recognizing his accomplishments for the victory at the Battle of Flamborough Head, fighting against the British navy.
