Creating Republican Governments, 1776-1790

Question 1

Monarchy

Answer 1

Form of govt with a single ruler at its head

Question 2

Democarcy

Answer 2

A system of govt characterized by majority rule, where the majority of the citizens have the power to make decisions binding the whole

Question 3

Conservative Whigs

Answer 3

The politically and economically elite revolutionary class that wanted to limit political participation to a few powerful families

Question 4

Radical Whigs

Answer 4

Revolutionaries who favored broadening participation in the political process (pushed for democracy)

Question 5

Coverture

Answer 5

The legal statue of married women in the US, which included completely legal and economic dependence on husbands

Question 6

Mary Otis Warren

Answer 6

1. In Ma,
2. Actively opposed British reform measures before the outbreak of the war
3. Published anti-British works

Question 7

Judith Sargent Mary

Answer 7

1. Of Ma

2. Advocated women’s economic independence and equal educational opportunities for men and women

Question 8

What effects did the Revolution have on the role of Women

Answer 8

1. Reconfigured women roles by undermining the traditional expectation of wives and mothers (during war time)
2. Women expected to practice republican virtues, especially frugality and simplicity
3. Republican motherhood: women expected to raise children with the virtues necessary to ensure the survival of the republic

Question 9

Manumission

Answer 9

The freezing of a slave any his or her owner

Question 10

Nationalost

Answer 10

1. Those who called for a stronger federal govt
2. Pushed for the power to tax
3. Hamilton, Madison, Morris Wilson
4. Proposed a 5 percent tax on imports

Question 11

The Ordinance of 1784

Answer 11

Directed that new states would be formed from a huge area of land below the Great Lakes, and these new states would have equal standing with the original states

Question 12

The Ordinance of 1785

Answer 12

Called for the division of this land into rectangular plots in order to prepare for thegovj sale of the lad

Question 13

The Ordinance of 1787

Answer 13

1. Officially turned the land into an incorporated territory called the Northwest Territory
2. Prohibited slavery North of the Ohio River

Question 14

Causes of Shay’s Rebellion

Answer 14

1. Inflation/unstable currency/lack of specie
2. Farmers did not receive payments for war
3. System favored wealthy and elite
4. Unable to pay debts and taxes with unstable curency
5. Farmers in Ma. seek redress from govt and are refused
6. Take up arms and demand a closure of courts (prevent foreclosures)

Question 15

Results of Shay’s Rebellion

Answer 15

1. Whigs felt that the Republic was falling into anarchy
2. Democratic impulses were driving the population
3. Washington comes out of retirement to lead convent called by Hamilton to amend articles of Confederation to deal with insurgencies

Question 16

Outline the Virginia Plan

Answer 16

1. James Madison
2. Strong national govt that could overturn states laws
3. Bicameral with proportional representation
4. Gave power to bigger states
5. Created a judicial and executive branch
6. Would ensure that VA. and her interests (slavery) would be safe

Question 17

Federalists

Answer 17

1. Those who supported the constitution of 1787 and a strong central govt
2. The leading political party of the 1790s

Question 18

Ant-Federalists

Answer 18

1. Those who opposed the 1787 Constitution and favored stronger individual states
2. Wanted a bill of rights