alleryStart learning →The Articles of Confederation preceded the Constitutional Convention by roughly:
AA century
BTen years
COne year
DFifty years
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Ten years
1. Compare the two dates directly.
2. The final draft of the Articles was accepted by Congress in November 1777.
3. Fifty-five delegates arrived in Philadelphia in May 1787.
4. The gap between 1777 and 1787 is ten years.
5. So the Articles preceded the Convention by roughly a decade.
_Source: OpenStax American Government 4e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 2 'The Constitution and Its Origins'_
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