Why did the Continental Congress have a difficult time paying back its war debts? It needed a better advertising campaign.
It had no power to tax citizens to help pay back the debt.
Someone had stolen all the money Congress had in a vault.
The bank would not release money to Congress.

The answer is B - it had no power to tax citizens to help pay back the debt.

Explanation: keep in mind that the founding fathers wanted to have a different government than the British. So what the continental congress did was they printed loads of money and this resulted in severe inflation of the colonies and a depreciation of the continental dollar

Inflation:
(money is not worth as much and you have to pay more money for goods that did not cost that amount before)

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