birth of a nation Flashcards
What type of government is run by the people who live under it?
democracy
Approximately how many Loyalists left the United States?
100,000
The first state to have suffrage for all men over twenty-one years of age was
Vermont
How did states like Pennsylvania and Rhode Island end slavery within their borders?
gradual emancipation acts
One weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that they provided for:
a unanimous vote of the states to amend the Articles
A rebellion of debt-ridden farmers was led by:
Daniel Shays
Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress had no power to:
collect taxes
The Articles of Confederation went into effect in:
1781
under what law was the states were superior to the national government
Articles of Confederation
A serious dispute between the large and small states under the Articles was over the problem of:A serious dispute between the large and small states under the Articles was over the problem of:
representationrepresentation
what provided the government of new territories
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
benefited eastern speculators at the expense of western farmers
Ordinance of 1785
Under the Land Ordinance of 1787, a territory could be admitted to the Union when it had
60,000
original intended purpose of the Constitutional Convention
amending the Articles of confederation
What issue made Virginia and South Carolina threaten to not support the Constitution?
slavery
distribution of power between states and federal government
The framers built the government around a federal system to solve conflict over what issue?
Which of the following men were responsible for writing the Federalist Papers?
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
John Jay
Why was the system of checks and balances included in the Constitution?
to prevent one branch of the government from becoming too powerful
What are the three ways the Constitution can be amended?
amendment ratified by special conventions in three-fourths of the states
amendment proposed by special convention, called for by two-thirds of state legislatures, and ratified by three-fourths of state legislatures
amendment proposed by two-thirds of both houses and ratified by three-fourths of the states