The romans had taken over
Henry Ford's car factories brought many jobs to the people of Michigan, it gave the working class a better quality of life and brought wealth to the state.
The national government wasn’t able to tax the states leaving them without money, they count draft an army, leaving them with no power, etc. The flaws in the articles can be seen in Shay’s Rebellion when the farmers took over an arsenal and rebelled and the national government had no army to stop them so states had to rely on militias which was not effective.
The Plymouth Colony started businessmen and adventures.