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The Articles of Confederation established a

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Unicameral congress dominated by state legislatures that appointed its members

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What was the critical period?

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The time the USA was under the Articles of Confederation

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What couldn’t the Congress do?

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Levy taxes, regulate foreign or interstate commerce, pay off nations’ debts, no power to enforce provisions

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Who was Robert Morris?

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Superintendent of finance in the final years of the war, developed a program of taxation and debt management to make the national government more stable

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What would the Bank of North America do?

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Hold government funds, lend money to the government and issue currency

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Morris’s program depended on

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The government having a secure income and it foundered the requirement if unanimous state approval for the amendments of the state constituents

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What was the Newburgh Conspiracy?

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The camp of GW had grown restless, and the officers feared the land grants promised would never be issued.

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A delegation of concerned army members traveled to Philly, where they soon found

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Themselves drawn into a scheme to line up army officers and public creditors with nationalists in Congress and confirmed the states with threats unless they yielded more power to Congress?

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What was GW’s reaction to the Newburgh Conspiracy?

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He sympathized with the Basic purpose of Hamilton’s scheme. But Washington convinced that a military coup would be both dishonorable and dangerous

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GW thought that threatening a mutinous coup violated

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The very purposes of the war and directly challenged its own integrity

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Under the Articles of Confederation, land not included within the 13 original states

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Became public domain, owned and administrated by the national government

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Under the land ordinance that Jefferson wrote in 1784,

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When a territory’s population equaled of the smallest existing state, it would be qualified for statehood?

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Land Ordinance of 1785?

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It outlined a plan for land surveys and sales that would eventually stamp a rectangular pattern on much of the nation’s surface

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The terms of 1785 favored

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Speculators

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What was the NW ordinance?

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At first the territory fell subject to a governor, a secretary, and three judges. Once at 5000 male adults, it could have an assembly

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What were the difference between NW ordinance and royal colonies?

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Once at 60,000 free inhabitants, it could have statehood, secondly they had a bill of rights, and no slavery

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The NW ordinance had a larger importance,

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It represented a sharp break with the imperialistic European expansion, and Western territories. Equals rather than subordinate colonies

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The Treaty of Fort Sranwix?

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The Iroquois were forced to cede land in western New York and Pennsylvania

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Treaty of Hopewell?

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The Cherokees gave up all claims in SC, mush of western NC, and large portions of Kentucky and Tennessee

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Commercial agriculture dependent upon trade with foreign makers

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Collapsed during the war because of the British liberating slaves and British decision to close West Indies from trade

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After the war, American ships could not

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Carry British goods anywhere else

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After the war, American

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Trade flourished because it wasn’t just with Britain

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Why were there British forts along the Canadian border?

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It was justified because America failed to pay their pre war debts

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What did the Treaty of Paris guarantee to Tories?

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Immunity for 12 months so they could return from Canada or Great Britain to wind up their affairs

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By the end of 1787, all the states had

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Rescinded laws in conflict with the peace treaty

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The right to send boats and barges down the Mississippi was crucial to the growing American settlements in Kentucky and Tennessee, but

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Louisiana Spanish’s governor closed the river to American commerce and began to conspire with indians and settlers against the U.S.

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most people were affected by

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economic troubles and the acute currency shortage after the war

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Steak governments and post special taxes on British vessels and special tariffs on the goods they brought the United States

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But it failed to work because of the lack of uniformity among the states

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Skilled workers want to bury his greatest team from the states tariffs on imports

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That competed with their goods

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Short of cash and other post more economical difficulties gave rise to more immediate demand for

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Paper currency for postponement of tax in debt payments and for laws to delay the foreclosure of mortgages

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What was the main problem with Shays rebellion

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Too little paper money and high taxation

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Shays and his followers saw a more flexible monetary policy

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Laws allowing them to use corn and wheat as money in the right postpone paying taxes until the postwar agricultural depression lifted

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The federal government responded to Shays rebellion

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By sending a militia that put down the rebellion as well as a call to revise the articles of confederation

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Where did the Constitutional convention meet

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Philly

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Patrick Henry who was a foe centralized government

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Refused to represent his state

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The people who attended the Constitutional convention were

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Extremely diverse in their occupations but all had experiences in the revolution

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Benjamin Franklin was able to provide

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Wit and commonsense behind the scenes

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James Madison was the ablest

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Political Philosopherin the entire group

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Eldridge Gerry earned the nickname

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Old Grumbletonain does he opposed everything that he didn’t propose

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James Madison emerged as the

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Central figure at the convention

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The conceiving eloquence of James Madison’s arguments proved

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Decisive

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On certain fundamentals they generally agreed

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That government derives its just powers from the consent of the people that society must be protected from the tyranny of the majority of the people at large must have a voice in the government and that is stronger central government is necessary

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What was the Virginia plan

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That the delicate scrap their instructions to revise The articles of Confederation instead draft a new paper

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Who was the one who propose separate legislative executive and judicial branches

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James Madison

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The Congress would be divided into two houses

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Laura house chosen by the citizens and upper house of senators elected by state legislators

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It was the New Jersey plan

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It’s sought out to keep existing structure of equal representation of the states in a unicameral Congress but give Congress the power to levy taxes and regulate commerce in the authority to make an executive and the Supreme Court

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What was the great compromise

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The more Populous states won appointment by the population in the House of Representatives and all states won equality in the Senate

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According to James Madison the real difference of interest

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Lies between the northern and southern states

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Framers of the Constitution did not even consider the possibility of abolishing slavery

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Nor did they view the enslaved people as human beings whose right should be protected by the Constitution

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What did John Rutledge propose

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Religion in humanity have nothing to do with this labor question interest alone is the governing principle of nations

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Because slaves made up the majority of the population in the southern states

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The seven states wanted them to be counted as peoples so that they could have bigger representation in Congress

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Norners were willing to count slaves for each state’s share of taxes

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But not representation

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It’s finally compromise that slaves

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Would be counted as 3/5 of people

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Congress cannot prohibit that trans Atlantic slave trade

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Before 1808

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Constitutional delegates found it irrevenant

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Talk about the role of Women

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The Constitution prohibits any future emigrant from

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Being president limiting office to a natural born citizen

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What was the first naturalization law

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Denied citizenship to people of African descent

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The delicates establish that the United States was to be

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Representative not literal democracy

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The new president would have

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Vito over acts of Congress subject to being overwritten by two thirds vote in each house commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces and responsible for the execution of the laws make treatiesWith the advice and consent of two thirds of the Senate

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Chief executive could not

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Declare war or peace, could be removed from office by a two thirds vote of the Senate

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Who were the leading nationalists Constitution

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James Madison James Wilson and Alexander Hamilton

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Before long nearly all the states were choosing

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The presidential electors by popular vote and the electors forecasting the votes as they have played them before the election

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What could the Supreme Court do

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Review congressional actions judicial review in cases involving both state and federal laws

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Although the Constitution extend vast new powers to national government

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The delegates miss trust of uncheck power is a parent and repeated examples of countervailing forces

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Amendments can be proposed either by

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Two thirds vote of each vote in the national Congress or buy a convention specially called upon application of two thirds of the state legislators

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Amendments can be ratified by

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Approval of three fourths of the states or in special conventions

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Who were the federalist

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Advocates the new constitution

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Who were the anti-Federalist

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Opponent who favored a more decentralized federal system

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Yorker Gilbert living stone spoke for many when he called

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The debate the greatest transaction of their lives

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What were the federalist greatest advantages

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Their leaders have been members of the Constitutional convention were already familiar with the disputed issues in the document they were not only better prepared but also better organized in on the whole made up more able leaders in the political community

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Federalist leaders were more likely to be

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Young man who Public credit had begun during the revolution

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View of the constitutional supporters liked it

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In it’s entirety, but most believe that it was the best document obtainable

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What was the The Federalist

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A collection of essays in New York newspapers that was instigated by Alexander Hamilton James Madison and John J the essays that they need the principle of the supreme national authority while reassuring doubters that people have little to fear about Tyranny

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Madison argued that the diversity of the expanding United States

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Would make it impossible for any single faction to form a majority that could dominate the government

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Manison contradicted the conventional wisdom of the time

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Which insisted that republics can only survive in small homogeneous countries

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