Americans, after gaining independence from England, needed to establish some form of government. Before the war ended, the Second Congress of the Confederacy called for a new government to be drafted to govern this new country, which the Articles of Confederation established. The Articles of Confederation built a government based solely on republican ideals, such as civic virtue, the idea that states and citizens will make sacrifices for the common good in order to benefit all. Relying on civic virtue was not as successful for the young country. The Articles of Confederation proved effective in organizing and creating states in the Old Northwest, spreading republican ideals; However, the success of the Articles of Confederation was overshadowed by its failures. The Articles of Confederation failed to provide the new, young United States with effective government in its inability to collect tax revenue to pay its debts, control the mobocratic uprising of disgruntled factions, and manage foreign policy; Furthermore, the failure of the Articles of Confederation revealed the ineffectiveness and failure of republicanism. The Articles of Confederation allowed Congress to create successful land policies for the Old Northwest. Several states had significant territorial claims to the west, such as Massachusetts and Virginia, which made small landlocked states without western territorial claims feel inferior. These states ceded their lands to the Congress of the Confederacy. (Document E). In doing so, he showed that the States were capable of contributing to the common good, following the Republican idea of ​​civic virtue on which the Articles were based. In caring for the lands of the Old Northwest, the Confederacy Congress... middle of paper ......ood and gave them the money that would help build a strong government in foreign affairs, in fact they wouldn't even want their government to be strong in any area. The Articles of Confederation, the perfect republican government, was not a perfect government. It proved to be defective and ineffective in providing the central government with tax revenue to repay its debts, leading to mass discontent that the central government would fail to control. The Articles created a weak government that would be easily overturned by its people and by foreign countries. The use of civic virtue was successful in organized land policies that propagated republicanist ideals; however, he failed to help the Confederation Congress with tax revenues and mobocracy control. The Articles of Confederation were ineffective and flawed, with their roots solely in Republicanism..