Chapter 6

Question 1

What is republicanism?

Answer 1

Concept that ultimate political authority s vested in the citizens of the nation. The character of the republican government was dependent on civic virtue of its citizens to preserve that nation from corruption and moral decay.

Question 2

After the revolution what did the Americans come out with what outlook?

Answer 2

They looked forward with a positive outlook in that a eutrophic look with the nation’s special destiny.

Question 3

What happened to religious states after the war?

Answer 3

They were examined in that there should be no state sponsored religion.

Question 4

What happened to the issue of slavery?

Answer 4

The idea that all slaves should be free, because of this idea the abolitionist movement spread

Question 5

How did African Americans achieve the the start of the abolitionist movement?

Answer 5

Though writing and petitioning.

Question 6

What were some anti slavery societies?

Answer 6

In Philadelphia, Ben Franklin founded the the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes, Unlawfully Held.
In New York John Jay Alexander Hamilton founded the Manumission society.

Question 7

African Methodist Episcopal church what is it?

Answer 7

Richard Allen founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816 as the first independent black-run Protestant church in the United States. The AME Church was active in the promotion of abolition and the founding of educational institutions of free blacks.

Question 8

What did women demand after the revolution?

Answer 8

They wanted more rights in both the households and the in public. During this time women also petition for divorce from their husbands.

Question 9

What were some shared political assumptions in the written documents of the state constitutions?

Answer 9

They described in having local governments and enjoy certain rights as citizens.

Question 10

What are natural rights?

Answer 10

Fundamental rights over which the government could exercise no control. An uncompromising belief in such rights energized the popular demand for a formal bill of rights.

Question 11

What were the three things that eight of the 13 states had in their constitutionf?

Answer 11

Religion, speech, and press.

Question 12

Why were some Americans not optimistic about the nation’s immediate prospects?

Answer 12

The health of a small republic depended entirely on the virtue of its people.

Question 13

Who is John Dickenson?

Answer 13

A man that headed the a committee which envisioned strong national government, which failed.

Question 14

What is the Articles Of Confederation?

Answer 14

Ratified in 1781 this document was the United States’ first constitution, providing a framework for national government. The articles articles sharply limited central authority by denying the national government any taxation or coercive power.

Question 15

What was the result of the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 15

The result was a government that many people regarded as powerless. When for ratification of the constitution states encountered apathy and hostility.

Question 16

What were the weaknesses of the Articles Of Confederation?

Answer 16

All the major land claims west that belonged to America, to the Mississippi river.

Question 17

What was the one major achievement of the Articles Of Confederation?

Answer 17

Settled the land west of the colonies

Question 18

Who were the type of people that moved to the colonies?

Answer 18

They were the undesirables that were from the eastern seaboard and a little less savage than the Indians.

Question 19

What is the NorthWest Ordinance?

Answer 19

Legislation that formulated plans for governments in America’s northwestern territories, defined a procedure for the territories admission to the Union as states, and prohibited slavery north of the Ohio river.

Question 20

What were some critique from the nationalists?

Answer 20

• The inability to regulate trade.

- A heavy burden of state and national debt compounded the general sense of economic crisis.

Question 21

Who led the nationalist’s leaders?

Answer 21

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and Robert Morris

Question 22

In foreign affairs, what were the embarrassments that America had?

Answer 22

That the federal government could not enforce the treaty.

Spain claims its own land that was NOT stated in the treaty.

Question 23

What was the idea that James Madison have in the making of the government?

Answer 23

He created a government that serve the will of the people and yet is detached from their narrow based demands.

Question 24

What is Shay’s Rebellion?

Answer 24

Armed insurrection of farmers in western Massachusetts led by Daniel Shays a veteran of the Continental Army. Intended to prevent state courts from foreclosing on debtors unable to pay their taxes, the rebellion was put down by the state militia. Nationalists used the event to justify the calling of a constitutional convention to strengthen the national government.

Question 25

What is the Philadelphia convention?

Answer 25

Meeting of delegates from the 13 colonies in order to change the articles of confederation.

Question 26

At the Philadelphia convention what was the Virginia plan?

Answer 26

Offered by James Madison and the Virginia delegation at the Constitutional convention, this proposal called for new government with a strong executive office and two houses of Congress, each with representation proportional to a state’s population.

Question 27

What is the 3/5th rule?`

Answer 27

Constitutional provision that for ever five slaves count for three free voters in determining seats for the House of Representatives.

Question 28

What were the last details in the convention?

Answer 28

President would be voted in thanks to the electoral college.

Question 29

What is a Federalist?

Answer 29

Supporter of the Constitution who advocated its ratification.

Question 30

What is a Anti-federalist?

Answer 30

Critic of the Constitution who expressed concern that it seemed to possess no specific provision for the protection of natural and civil rights.The antifederalists forced Congress to accept a number of amendments known as a bill of rights.

Question 31

What is the bill of rights?

Answer 31

The first ten amendments to the US constitution adopted in 1791 to preserve the rights and liberties of individuals.