Chapter 6

Question 1

Shay’s Rebellion

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Question 2

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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Question 3

Treaty of Fort Stanwix

Answer 3

• A temporary peace treaty was signed between some of the Iroquois and the U.S. government to secure the New York border.
• Some Natives didn’t respect the treaty.
• Began to create an Indian confederation that could resist the United States. Included many different tribes.
• One of the most unified and effective adversaries that the United States would face.

Question 4

Republican Motherhood

Answer 4

the belief that women should have more rights and a better education so that they might support husbands and raise sons who would actively participate in the political affairs of society

Question 5

Annapolis Convention

Answer 5

September 1786: five states sent delegates to a convention in Maryland.

• Asked for a convention in Philadelphia to discuss the issues with the articles of confederation.
• Goal was to revise the Articles of Confederation.

Question 6

Constitutional Convention of 1787

Answer 6

• 55 delegates met Philadelphia
• Most were young
• 29 had college degrees.
• Only 8 had signed the Declaration of Independence

Question 7

James Madison

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Question 8

Virginia Plan

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Question 9

seperation of powers

Answer 9

divided the power between congress, the executive branch, and judiciary branch

Question 10

federalism

Answer 10

both the central national government and the individual state government had power

Question 11

New Jersey Plan

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Question 12

proportional representation

Answer 12

representatives elected directly by the voters of districts based on the size of a state’s population

Question 13

Great Compromise

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Question 14

Newburgh Conspiracy

Answer 14

March 1783: John Armstrong published “Newburgh Addresses” in which he argued that officers needed to meet to discuss the situation at hand.

Question 15

Alexander Hamilton

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Question 16

Connecticut Plan

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Question 17

Electoral College

Answer 17

Each state selects presidential electors according to the number of its senators and representatives in Congress. Those electors would then chose the next president

Question 18

three-fifths clause

Answer 18

Pennsylvania’s James Wilson offered a compromise:

• Slaves would be counted as 3/5 a person for representation purposes.
• Didn’t actually use the word slaves, stated ‘those bound to servitude’

Question 19

John Adams

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Question 20

Anti-federalists

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• argued the Constitution lacked a bill of rights
• thought it was too close to the power they had fought against with the British

Question 21

Federalists

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-Used the fear of Shay’s Rebellion and Native attacks as justification for the need of a new stronger government

Question 22

Benjamin Banneker

Answer 22

• free African-American
• parents were slaves
• wrote to Thomas Jefferson in 1791, to remind Jefferson of what he penned in the Constitution “that all med are created equal…”

Question 23

Abigail Adams

Answer 23

• wife to John Adams

- plead to her husband and the Continental Congress to “remember the ladies”, in hopes of equality

Question 24

Yorktown

Answer 24

-Cornwallis surrendered to Washington on October 10, 1781 in Yorktown