Important Terms to Know:
Articles of Confederation (why were the articles replaced?)
Society of Cincinnati
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Northwest Ordinance
Shay's Rebellion
The Virginia Plan
The Great Compromise
Three-fifths Compromise
The Federalist Papers
HW: Answer study questions below
GO HERE for Northwest Ordinance
CHAPTER
9: THE CONFEDERATION AND THE
CONSTITUTION: 1776—1790
The Pursuit of Equality
Know:
Leveling, Society of the Cincinnati,
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom,
Abigail Adams, Republican Motherhood, John Singleton Copley
1. What social changes resulted
from the American Revolution?
Constitution Making in the States
Know: State Constitutions,
Fundamental Law
2. What was the importance
of the state constitutions?
Economic Crosscurrents
Know: Navigation Laws, Empress
of China, Speculation
3. What were the positive and negative effects of the war on
America?
A Shaky Start toward Union
Know: Natural Rights
4. Why was the end of the war difficult on the national
government?
Creating a Confederation
Know: Sovereignty, Articles of
Confederation
5.
What
forces served to unify the separate states during the war?
The Articles of Confederation: America's First
Constitution
6. What weaknesses plagued the Articles of Confederation? What
was good about it?
Landmarks in Land Laws
Know:
Old Northwest, Land Ordinance of 1785,
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
7. Explain the importance of the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the
Northwest Ordinance.
The World's Ugly Duckling
Know: Natchez, Dey of Algiers
8. Using examples, explain the title of this section.
The Horrid Specter of Anarchy
Know: Shay's Rebellion,
Mobocracy
9. Were
the United States of America in danger of falling apart under the Articles of
Confederation? Explain.
A Convention of "Demigods"
Know: George Washington, Benjamin
Franklin, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry
10. What kind of men gathered in Philadelphia for the "sole
and express purpose of revising" the old government?
Patriots in Philadelphia
11. How does George Washington's quote, "We have, probably,
had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation."
help to explain the purposes of our founding fathers.
Hammering out a Bundle of Compromises
Know: Virginia (large state) Plan, Bicameral Legislature, New Jersey
(small state) Plan, Great Compromise, Electoral College, Three-fifths
Compromise
12. Describe the compromises that were achieved by the delegates
to the Constitutional Convention.
Safeguards for Conservatism
Know: Checks and Balances,
Separation of Powers
13. How democratic was the
Constitution as originally written?
The Clash of Federalists and Antifederalists
Know: Antifederalists,
Federalists
14. Who were the antifederalists and why did they oppose the
Constitution?
The Great Debate in the States
15. Did most of the states approve of the Constitution? Why?
The Four Laggard States
Know: Alexander Hamilton, John
Jay, James Madison, The Federalist
16. Explain some of the opposition to ratification of the
Constitution?
A Conservative Triumph
17. What does your text mean when it says that the Constitution,
"...elevated the ideals of the Revolution even while setting boundaries to
them."?
The Constitution: Revolutionary or Counterrevolutionary?
Know: Nationalist School of
Historians, Critical Period, Charles Beard, Gordon Wood
18. Why have historians disagreed about the reason why our
Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution?
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