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... Hello, and thank you for joining the American Revolution.

This week, episode 341, the Annapolis Convention.

And for years following the end of the war,

national leaders were growing increasingly frustrated with the states running themselves

increasingly separately, and with a Confederation Congress that did not have any power to regulate

or enforce much of anything. The Congress proved to be barely functional during the war, when the need to

remain united against the British Army focused the attention of the delegates. In peacetime, without

that enemy army to goad them along, states became even less willing to cooperate. Regional interests began to

open more divisions between the states. Those who dreamed of a

truly United States grew frustrated. Some people believed that there was no way to keep this

large number of people together without the unifying force of a king. Back in episode 337,

we discussed the Mount Vernon Conference,

where George Washington was trying to establish an interstate agreement to form a company

that would create a commercial route to the west via the Potomac River.

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