1. Factors leading to the Constitutional Convention

2. Boundary disputes between states Poor foreign relations Unpaid war debts Falling crop prices

3. Shays’s Rebellion Led by Daniel Shays in Mass. Farmers were heavily in debt after the Revolutionary War The Mass. government began taking their farms for payment

4. In 1786, Shays called together 2,000 angry farmers and attacked the court house at Springfield. The state government raised an army and ended the rebellion

5. The significance of Shays’s rebellion: the Articles of Confederation had given the national government too little power

6. The Results of the discontent and of Shays’s Rebellion Americans were worried about the government’s ability to maintain order

7. James Madison and Alexander Hamilton called for a convention to consider revising the Articles of Confederation

8. States were invited to special convention to “revise” the articles

9. Delegates from 12 states met in Independence Hall in Philadelphia

10. Delegates agreed to create a new constitution