Question

In the , frustrated army officers threatened to force Congress and the states to grant them their pay, and some threatened to establish a new government with George Washington as king.

Answer 1

In the Newburgh Conspiracy (Newburgh, New York, 1783). Frustrated Continental Army officers, unpaid and facing broken promises, threatened to force Congress and the states to give them their pay — and some even talked of creating a new government with George Washington as king. Washington’s Newburgh Address defused the plot.