So history doesn't repeat itself.
Answer:
The New England colonies were made up of the colonies of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
Explanation:
1. Wars
2. Young people were rulers
In a confederacy, there is no such thing as a strong central government and the purpose of a confederacy is to protect the states in it from foreign incursion, not to solve domestic problems which are all handled by individual local governments. The articles of confederation established such a confederacy of the first states and they needed the constitution in order to turn into a federation.