US History Ch.6 Flashcards
What a the 3 parts to a government?
Legislature, courts(judicial), and executive.
Why was it more important to create the states first?
The state government affected the lives of the people more than the central government.
What did each part of government do?
Legislature- proposed laws and decided whether to pass laws or not
Courts- enforced law
Executive- carried out the laws
What is the Bill of Rights?
A lists of what the government could not do and liberties that people could not be deprived of
What is depression?
Economic downturns
Why did the US not place tariffs on the goods the British were dumping on them?
The Articles of Confederation would not allow them to tax.
What were continental dollars and why did it fall in value?
These dollars were paper money. People had no confidence in them.
What was the preferred currency?
Gold and silver hard coins
How does inflation happen?
Prices rise do to the continuing rising amount of money in people’s pockets without supply increase
What was the first case in which law was deemed unconstitutional?
Trevett vs. Weeden
______ lead Shay’s Rebellion do to the taxes that were hurting the farmers and their lands. ( Massachusetts was bound to raise taxes and land was seized from you if you couldn’t pay)
Daniel Shays
What were the issues that America faced after they declared independence?
States lacked armies, states had no experience working together, and they had no stable economy.
How did Shays’ Rebellion change people’s opinions of the articles?
They now believed that government could not maintain order in the land.
What common to all constitutions?
People were establishing the rules by which political life was to be organized and run.
The constitutions failed to do what?
Do away slavery
Why did the movement to free slaves take hold after the revolution?
High maintaining slavery, and the Declaration declared freedom.
Rather than a king, the Americans on whom to carry out the functions of head of state and executive leader of country?
Committee of congress
What did the British enforce on the Americans since they were now viewed as foreign nation?
Navigation acts
What were three of the greatest achievements of the Treaty of Paris?
England recognized the US as a country.
The British removed their army from the US.
Americans stopped taking land from British Loyalists.
How many men were needed in a territory before they could vote for their own legislature?
5,000
How many men were needed in a territory before they could draft a state constitution?
60,000
Which states were formed from the Northwest Ordinance?
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin
What were the three main ideas that influenced our government?
1215 Magna Carta, the Enlightenment, and the Mayflower Compact
Explain each idea that influenced our government.
1215 Magna Carta- limited the power of the king
Mayflower Compact- people are the ultimate source of authority
Enlightenment- government based on the consent of the governed
What did each state have to write?
Their own constitution
What was each constitution?
A democracy
What was our first form of central government?
The Second Continental Congress
What was our first constitution?
The Articles of Confederation
What did the Land Ordinance of 1785 establish?
A method of selling land
What section of the Land Ordinance of 1785 funded the schools?
The 16th section
What did the Land Ordinance of 1787 call the colonies?
Territories
What is a republic?
The power must lie in representatives voted by the people.
Who were hurt by the Navigation Acts?
Merchants and ship builders
What did the British do after the war?
They dumped their good on America (sold their goods and supplies in America)
What was another problem with continental dollars?
They were made if paper so it was a hard time to believe it was worth something and people could illegally counterfeit the money
What were the Navigation Acts?
It made sure Americans sold their good in the “right” places.
What did most states have?
A Bill of Rights
Who had to sign the Bill of Rights?
William of Orange
What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
The government could not:
- regulate trade
- tax the people
- 9/13 states had to approve a law
- printing money
- all land west was given to the central government because if land disputes
What did the Articles of Confederation call the 13 colonies?
“League of Fellowship”
Who did congress send to negotiate peace?
John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Henry Laurens
