<u>Answer:</u>
American leaders called for the replacement of the Articles of Confederation because it made the central government too weak.
Option: (d)
<u>Explanation:
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- The Articles of Confederation had to be withdrawn and replaced with a Constitution because they dispensed too much of power and authority to the states and left the President to serve as a nominal head.
- The leaderships of states being too strong and free to form their own laws started behaving like independent entities.
- This ultimately created a threat to the unity of the nation.
- Moreover, many state leaders proposed that the federal government should get to exercise command over the state governments in order to secure broad and large national interests.
Your answer should be ‘the rapid settlement of the American West’, since according to senate.gov, it reads ‘ | The rapid settlement of the western territories | in the 1850s convinced most members of Congress of the need for efficient rail transport to the Pacific coast,’.
