did not have the power to regulate commerce, which greatly hindered the economy of the United States. Instead of having one national monetary unit, each of the thirteen colonies had their own form of money. This problem in itself created several other problems. For instance each colonys form of money had different value depending on the type of economy the colony had. This meant that colonies had to figure out exchange rates for their money from one colony to the next. The problem of exchange rates along with difficulty in transportation caused trading between colonies to become extremely limited. Transportation of goods between colonies was a problem. Transporting goods by sea was very dangerous because, since the United States had no military troops, pirates ran rampant in the open sea. Chances of goods actually reaching the destination by way of sea were very bad. Transporting goods by land would seem to be the logical solution to this, but there were problems with that too. Colonieswould tax all goods being sent through their territory. Goods being sent from a southern colony to a northern colony would often times cost twice as much as the original price because of the taxes placed on the goods by various states. Neither the selling nor the buying colonies were willing to pick up the costs of all the taxes. Trading between northern and southern states came to a stand still. This problem nearly wrecked the economy because the northern, manufacturing states were reliant on the raw goods being supplied by the southern, agricultural states. Had the Congress been given the power to regulate commerce, the states never would have had these problems. The inability to create economic production had the United States becoming poorer and poorer and slipping into economic ruin.Another of the problems with the Articles of Confederation was that Congress could not raise a national army. Much of Congress inability to raise an army stemmed from not...
