Episode 5: The Crisis of the 1780s

14/03/2025 43 min Temporada 1 Episodio 5
Episode 5: The Crisis of the 1780s

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On this episode of the American Founding, Jay examines how the Articles of Confederation failed to hold the country together in the 1780s. By the middle of the decade, it was clear to many nationalists that the Articles were a bad system of government. And when Daniel Shays and his Regulators began seizing Massachusetts courthouses in 1786, it was finally time to act.