Chapter 14

Question 1

(Pg 22/2) problems us faced

Answer 1

Boundaries
Land claims
Statehood

Question 2

(Pg 22/2) in 1786, John jay urged congress to

Answer 2

Give up on navigating Mississippi to Spain for 25-30 years in return for commercial advantages. Measure was defeated

Question 3

(Pg 22/2) George Washington was a promoter of the

Answer 3

Mississippi company

Question 4

(Pg 23/ 3) Washington:

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“Was to die possessed of some 41 thousand acres of frontier territory”

Question 5

(Pg 23/ 3) Manasseh cutler

Answer 5

Ex army chaplain
Read law and practiced as a physician
A founder of the Ohio company

Question 6

(Pg 23/ 3) cutler secured the right to take

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One and a half million acres of choice land “at the junction of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivera”

Question 7

(Pg 23/ 3) curlers contract was the

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Biggest ever made in the U.S. And it had involved congress

Question 8

(Pg 23/ 3) Rufus King helped to draft the

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Northwest ordinance

Question 9

(Pg 23/ 3) northwest ordinance:

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“The third great document of American history, after the Declaration of Independence and the constitution”

Question 10

(Pg 23/ 3) northwest ordinance provided that the entire territory was to be ruled at first by a

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Governor, a secretary and three judges, named by congress

Question 11

(Pg 23/ 3) property qualification

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The voters must own 50 acres and legislators 200

Question 12

(Pg 23/ 3) the changes in population “signified a new

Answer 12

Alignment a possible and disturbing transfer of power.”

Question 13

(Pg 23/ 3) earlier in the convention has agreed that in the original states for every 40,000 people there should be one representative in the lower house:

Answer 13

This became dangerous with western emigration

Question 14

(Pg 22/2) the Sara fought over the

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Western land

Question 15

(Pg 24/ 4) western states were created with

Answer 15

“Makeshift governments and makeshift law courts of their own”

Question 16

(Pg 24/4) there was worry that “poor settlers” would

Answer 16

Outvote the maritime states

Question 17

(Pg 24/4) Eldridge Gerry wanted the constitution to

Answer 17

Limit the admission of new states and his motion was voted on and defeated

Question 18

(Pg 24/4) Morris was against equality with

Answer 18

New states, he wanted conditional admission of them

Question 19

(Pg 24/4) Randolph repudiated Morris’s argument with the fact that the

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Convention pledged faith to new states that “they shall be admitted on equal terms”

Question 20

(Pg 24/4) reverend Manasseh cutler antes to persuade the convention that the

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Constitution must not permit new or old states to preach their contracts in western land sales

Question 21

(Pg 24/4) Rufus King suggested that the constitution include that states would be unable to

Answer 21

Pass laws impairing the obligation of contracts

Question 22

(Pg 24/4) If it wasn’t for Morris the constitution would have included a clause that states would be

Answer 22

Unable to pass laws impairing the obligation of contracts