The correct answer is C) They accepted that the country needed a stronger central government than the one created by the Articles of Confederation could provide.
Leaders of the United States did not opt to simply revise or improve the Articles of Confederation in 1787 because "They accepted that the country needed a stronger central government than the one created by the Articles of Confederation could provide."
The Articles of Confederated had left a weak central government that practically could not do anything important. Under the Articles, the States maintained their sovereignty and were the ones that could collect money through taxes. When the Central government, the Congress, needed money, it had to ask the States for it. That is why the US leaders met at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to create the new Constitution.
Three famous daimyo spearheaded the unification in the late sixteenth century. And then, after the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, one man took control of all Japan. He was Tokugawa Ieyasu, who became shogun in 1603. ... Both sides of the Tokugawa years were crucial to the later making of modern Japan.
