1. Read: Shaping a Federal Union - Document Overview
2. Read: Federalist 21: Hamilton Lists the Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation (1787)
3. Read: A Proclamation of Shaysite Aggrievances (1786)
4. Read: Arguments Against Ratification of the Constitution at the Virginia Convention (1788)
5. Read: Madison's Defense of the Constitution at the Virginia Convention (1788)

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1. View: Continental Congress paper currency
2. View: Shays's Rebellion
3. View: Robert Morris
4. View: James Madison, 1783
5. View: Cross-section of the British slave ship Brookes
6. View: Balance of Power, 1781
7. View: Parliament Peep Show, 1779
8. View: Signing the Constitution, September 17, 1787
9. View: U.S. Constitution

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1. View: Western Land Cessions, 1781–1802
2. View: The Old Northwest, 1785
3. View: The Vote on the Constitution

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