It’s important to know how things worked before, so then if we know how they work, we could change it or leave it the way it is. Sometimes what worked back then doesn’t work now.
By the end of the revolutionary war the new government was formed as a confederation of independent states which were loosely linked to one another.
While initially seen as a strength, things eventually became difficult to manage as many states started to print their own money, make their own international trade pacts and were even building their own independent military.
This was seen as a threat to a new nation and constitutional convention was conducted in Philadelphia. 12 out of the 13 States participated in this convention with the aim of providing some kind of a homogeneity to the new country.
By the end of the convention, the constitution gave way to 3 different branches of government which still form the core of the United States:
1. The Legislative Branch
2. The Executive Branch
3. The Judicial Branch
<span>The catholic priests, nobles, lower classes and radicals.</span>
In 1763, Spain owned land west of the Mississippi River. Spaniards were the first people to visit the Lousiana region in 1541. However, it was the French who established a presence in this area in 1682. They claimed the entire Mississippi River basin. <span>France controlled this area until 1763 when it ceded the land west of the Mississippi River to Spain. </span> France was then defeated in the French and Indian war so she lost the territory east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain.
