Why weren't the Articles of Confederation sufficient to oversee the orderly expansion of the US?

Under the Articles of Confederation, the federal government had very little power

Explanation:

as a result of the lack of federal control and power as well as the relatively high independence of the states, expanding the nation in an orderly fashion would have been extremly hard.

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