The charter was revoked in 1684, and two years later all the New England colonies were united into the Dominion of New England. A new charter was issued in 1691 that joined the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Plymouth Colony, and the Maine Colony as the Province of Massachusetts Bay and placed it under a royal governor.

So you see, Massachusetts bay was much more advanced compared to Plymouth Colony. The Pilgrims came ashore the Plymouth Colony with very little and only half of their people left alive. When the Massachusetts bay Colony was established in Salem, Massachusetts by a small group of more supplied Puritans.

Why did the Plymouth Colony become part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony? It needed to form an alliance against the local Indians. It wanted to increase its surplus production of crops. It was much smaller and lacked a binding charter.

It revived between 1675 and 1676 to undertake its most important task, completely breaking the power of the Native Americans of S New England in King Philip’s War. With the revocation of the Massachusetts charter in 1684, the confederation was dissolved.

In 1643, a New England Confederation was formed, which consisted of Massachusetts Bay, New Plymouth, Connecticut River Valley, and New Haven. The goals of the confederation were to protect the colonists from the French in Canada and the Indians and to return runaway slaves.

The purpose of the new England confederation was protection against Native Americans & Dutch colonies.

Several factors influenced the formation of this alliance, including the solution of trade, boundary, and religious disputes, but the principal impetus was a concern over defense against attacks by the French, the Dutch, or the Indians.

New England Confederation

The Articles of Confederation were created by the Second Continental Congress. What was the purpose of the Articles of Confederation? The purpose of the Articles of Confederation was to plan the structure of the new government and to create a confederation-some kind of government.

One of the biggest problems was that the national government had no power to impose taxes. To avoid any perception of “taxation without representation,” the Articles of Confederation allowed only state governments to levy taxes. To pay for its expenses, the national government had to request money from the states.

Terms in this set (13)

• Strength 1. Congress could declare war, and start an army and navy.
• Strength 2. They could make peace and sign treaties.
• Strength 3. They can borrow money.
• Strength 4. They can organize a post office.
• Weakness 1. They had no power to draft soldiers.
• Weakness 2.
• Weakness 3.
• Weakness 4.

In response to Shays’ Rebellion, the government took steps to create a stronger national government.

Farmers were burdened by high taxes and unable to pay their debts, especially mortgages. They were hauled before county courts, often losing their property and going to debtors’ prisons. In the summer of 1786, farmers in the western counties assembled to petition the Massachusetts legislature for relief.

Shays’ Rebellion: A Massachusetts Farmer’s Account Shays’ Rebellion erupted a few years after the Revolutionary War when debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers tried to close down the courts in an attempt to save their farms from foreclosure.

The central government couldn’t stop Shays’ Rebellion because it lacked the executive power necessary.

What made the government’s response to the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 so different from its response to Shays’s Rebellion in 1787? The federal government used the army to quash the Whiskey Rebellion. The leaders of the Whiskey Rebellion were executed. War was officially declared during the Whiskey Rebellion.

What was the impact of Shays’s Rebellion in the lead-up to the Constitutional Convention? -Shays’s Rebellion demonstrated that the national government was too weak to respond to a crisis, leading to the Philadelphia Convention.

The farmers who fought in the Revolutionary War had received little compensation, and by the 1780s many were struggling to make ends meet. Businesses in Boston and elsewhere demanded immediate payment for goods that farmers had previously bought on credit and often paid off through barter.