In June 1776, colonial delegates to the Continental Congress began writing a document to set up a new country—with a government independent from Britain. The

In 1783, as the Revolutionary War came to a close, Alexander Hamilton resigned in disgust from the Continental Congress after it refused to consider a fundament

Describes the purpose and history of the Articles of Confederation and discusses how it led to the more powerful Constitution.

The Articles of Confederation were passed by the Continental Congress in 1777, but were not ratified by the states until 1781. This first governing document of

Learn about the plan U.S. leaders wrote which described how they would run our country back in the mid-1700s.