Chapter 6 Flashcards
Delineate the types and extent of the social and political changes brought by the revolution
- Reevaluate accepted social hierarchies and consider role of equality
- abolished remnant of aristocratic privilege
- moved toward separating church and state
Describe the conflict among American republicans of the 1780s over the relative importance of liberty as opposed to order
- Expected revolution to bring greater liberty
- some feared liberty would bring democratic excess
Describe the post revolutionary position on slavery in both the north and the south
- Northerners abolished institutions but did not see freemen as equal
- economic incentives of slave ownership in the south proved to powerful
Specify the post revolutionary changes in the expectation rights and roles of American women
- Women taught republican values to their children
- had to get more educated but still considered exclusively as homemakers
Describe the major sources and principles of the earliest American state constitutions
- Often provisional and sometimes experimental
- revealed social and regional differences
- emphasize fundamental freedoms
Identify the major problems of western settlement and evaluate the response
- Ownership
- older states claimed them under royal charters
- others felt should be shared by all
Explain how republican ideology contributed to the ills confronting the country in the 1780s and how Madison proposed to deal with these problems
- Feared liberty had been taken to far
- Madison argued that a large republic could prosper as a variety of interests would develop, check on one another, and leave gov. in capable hands
Trace the development of movement of new constitution from Annapolis convention through shay’s rebellion to the Philadelphia convention
-Fear from shay’s rebellion translated to the constitutional convention
Identify the major differences between Virginia and the New Jersey plan, then describe compromise
- Virginia plan was central gov. consisting of supreme legislature, executive and judiciary
- compromised on representation and slave population
Identify major issues separating federal it’s and anti-federalists. Describe and evaluate each side and compromise
- Federalists were more organized, well financed, and more capably led
- Anti-federalist views had wide popular view
Trace ratification process from the organization of opposing sides to June 1788
- Federalists eventually won struggle for ratification
- Anti-federalist argued that their was a lack of guarantees for individual rights and federalists made bill of rights
