Textbook chapter 7

Question 1

How was republicanism different than direct democracy?

Answer 1

Republicanism focuses on majority rule

Question 2

What did many of the founding fathers fear about democracy?

Answer 2

majority rule can easily overpower minority rights, and the wealthy few had reason to fear that a hostile and envious majority could seize and redistribute their wealth.

Question 3

How specifically did the experience of the Roman Republic inform the political and social philosophy of the founders?

Answer 3

Romans had thrown off monarchy and created a republic in which Roman citizens would appoint or select the leaders who would represent them. (had their own democracy)

Question 4

What was coverture?

Answer 4

the legal status of a married woman; women had no economic status

Question 5

What were the challenges of coverture?

Answer 5

women had to depend on their husbands economically and could not vote

Question 6

What were the challenges of Abigail Adams?

Answer 6

She had to run her husband’s homestead, she asked her husband for men and women to be much more equal

Question 7

What were the accomplishments of Mercy Otis?

Answer 7

Mercy Otis challenged gender assumptions and traditions during the Revolutionary era

Question 8

What were the accomplishments of Judith Sargent Murray?

Answer 8

Judith Murray advocated women’s economic independence and equal educational opportunities for men and women

Question 9

How did each state deal with the relationship between the church and the state?

Answer 9

Virginia and New England approved freedom of religion
Pennsylvania prohibited Jews from being in office, it was against the testament

Question 10

What were private manumissions?

Answer 10

Private manumissions, by which slaveholders freed the enslaved, provided one pathway from bondage (the state of being a slave)

Question 11

Why did the American Revolution lead to the freeing of many slaves?

Answer 11

The 1780 Massachusetts constitution technically freed all enslaved people

Question 12

Why did so few Native Americans lead to the freeing of many slaves?

Answer 12

Few Native Americans sided with the American revolutionaries, because almost all revolutionaries in the middle ground viewed them as an enemy to be destroyed.

Question 13

what specific types of mechanisms did the creators of state governments design to curb democratic impulses?

Answer 13

Checks and Balances system
state being its own republic

Question 14

What were the successes of the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 14

The land ordinances of 1785 and 1787

Question 15

Describe the Land Ordinance of 1785

Answer 15

The Ordinance of 1785 called for the division of this land into rectangular plots in order to prepare for the government’s sale of land.

Question 16

Describe the Land Ordinance of 1787

Answer 16

The Ordinance of 1787 officially turned the land into an incorporated territory called the Northwest Territory and prohibited slavery north of the Ohio River

Question 17

What was Shays’s Rebellion?

Answer 17

a series of violent attacks on courthouses and other government properties in Massachusetts

Question 18

At the Constitutional Convention, what were the Virginia and New Jersey plans?

Answer 18

The Virginia Plan’s call for proportional representation alarmed the representatives of the smaller states. The New Jersey Plan proposed that all states have equal votes in a unicameral national legislature.

Question 19

What was the Great Compromise?

Answer 19

the Senate, would have equal representation for all states; each state would be represented by two senators chosen by the state legislatures. Only the lower house, the House of Representatives, would have proportional representation.