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Which statement best describes why the Americans created a loose confederation of states in the Articles of Confederation?
A. They wanted a central authority to rule over all the joined states.
B. They did not want a central authority like the British system.
C. They did not want congress to have the power to declare war.
D. They wanted the states to have a choice about signing the Articles.


Sagot :

B

In the Revolution and its aftermath, the Americans spurned the centralized authority that had ruled over them in the form of the British unitary government, and thus created a government in which all states had equal power, and the central government was extremely limited.

They did not want a central authority like the British system.