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Most Americans wanted their new government to improve trade and to help them.
start a new religious government & practice their religion.
A meeting at which a new plan for the American government was written was called the First Continental Congress. Only about 6 delegates came to this first meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
A weak central government with most of the power at the state and local levels
The Congress never did put its tottering finances on a sound footing, and its fiscal problems ultimately discredited the Articles of Confederation in the eyes of the nationalists, a loose partnership of congressmen, army officers, and public creditors who wanted to strengthen the Confederation at the expense of the states. The nationalists first began to organize in the dark days of 1780 and 1781, when inflation was rampant, the army was going unpaid, the Congress had ceased paying interest on the public debt, and war effort itself seemed in danger of collapsing. Stimulated by the crisis, the nationalists supported the superintendent of finance for the Confederation government. The superintendent sought to enrich national authority through bold program of financial and political reform.