ilton devised a dangerous plot called theNewburgh Conspiracy in order to relieve the panic. In 1783, (Doc C) the twomen secretly persuaded some army officers to threaten a coupd’etat unless thetreasury obtained the taxation authority needed to raise their pay. A letter fromDelegate Joseph Jones to George Washington suggests the immediate pay tothe soilder by enforcing tariffs and taxation. George Washington blocked thisthreatened military coup aimed at strengthening the central government andguaranteeing back pay and pensions to officers as the war came close. Theseevents proved the Confederation was weak and unable to control financialproblems. Diplomatic problems multiplied after the war. Congress was unable tocomply states to repay prewar debts to British citizens and allow Loyalists torecover confiscated property. European governments closed off nearly allAmerican trade with the colonies. According to statistics of exports andpopulation(Doc. B), after the Declaration of Independence, the profit of exportsto Britain steadily declined. This shows that the export trade to Britain wasdeclining. Britain took away the rights of the United States to trade with theBritish colonies, yet Britain goods were still flooding in the United States.This, inreturn caused an economic depression within the colonies. Secretary of ForeignAffairs John Jay negotiated many treaties with Spain, Britain, and otherEuropean countries, but it was blocked by Congress. In John Jay’s Instructionsto the United States Minister to Great Britain (Doc. D, March 7, 1785), Jay insists that the British remove themselves from the United States. The Britishstill remained in the United States even after the war. Western land claimswere a long source of dispute between the states and european nations. Sevenstates had huge western land based on colonial charters(Doc. E), while six otherstates had noneThe addition of the western lands would strenghten ...
