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Content: Washington 
strongly believed that the military needed to be subordinate to civilian 
authority. On a 
90-degree June day in 1783, former Revolutionary War soldiers, carrying muskets, 
marched on the Philadelphia statehouse where Congress was meeting. They 
threatened to hold the members hostage until they were paid back wages. When 
Congress asked Pennsylvania to send a detachment of militia to protect them, the 
state refused, and the humiliated Congress temporarily relocated, first in 
Princeton, N.J., and later in Annapolis, Md., and New York City, N.Y.
Economic and 
Foreign Policy problems
Period:1780s 
The 
Revolution was followed by a severe economic depression in 1784 and 1785. To 
raise revenue, many states imposed charges on goods from other states. By the 
mid-1780s, Connecticut was levying heavier duties on goods from Massachusetts 
than on those from Britain. The national 
government was on the verge of bankruptcy. The Dutch and French would lend money 
only at exorbitant interest rates. A shortage of hard currency made it difficult 
to conduct commercial transactions. Inflated paper money issued by the 
individual states was virtually worthless.