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Mile 1- The Declaration of Independence
This was the first moment that the future leaders of America converged as one union with a common cause to fight Britain and gain their freedoms. -
Mile 2- The Articles of Confederation
After the Revolution, while it was important, it was not a fundamental point of the Constitution, more of an important time period, the same convention gathered together to write a list of laws that the new country could abide by. But it was unsuccessful since it failed to solve several of the economic problems including trade and tax. -
Mile 3- The Treaty of Paris
After the battle of Yorktown, the British surrender made America a sovereign nation and doubled the territory, this meant that America needed a true government like the Confederation and later the Constitutional Congress. -
Mile 4- Shays’ Rebellion
After years of some success like land grabs past the Appilations and the treaty of Paris giving America recognition as a a nation, then problems arose. The article of Confederation couldn’t tax, and the people needed money to pay off debts, when they couldn’t they were forced to go to jail. Daniel Shay lead a strike team to liberate the jailed debtors. -
Mile 5- Constitutional Convention
The People of Congress in response to the rebellion and several other issues in the states, decided to write a new set of laws and amendments in private at first. The government would have three branches, executive, judicial and legislative. For voting the party was split between having equal state candidates (anti-federalists) or representatives based on population (federalists). The federalists eventually won in public when they promised to set a bill of rights along with the new document. -
Destination- Ratification
This was the day where 9 states all decided they would live united under this set of laws. It was still important to convince New York and Virginia to ratify as well, or they would have the survive on their own separated from the rest of the nation. To this day it is a fundamental part of our judicial system and is an inspiration to other historic documents similar to it.
