FCHS HONOR CODE PLEDGE: _________________________________ BLOCK: _____ DATE: ___________
EXIT SLIP FOR THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION AND THE CONSTITUTION
A. Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
C. The Federalist Papers
E. Federalists
G. Three-Fifths Compromise
I. The Northwest Ordinance
K. The Articles of Confederation
B. The Whiskey Rebellion
D. The Bill of Rights
F. Antifederalists
H. The Great Compromise
J. The Constitutional Convention
L. The Constitution
_____1. This term refers to the men and women who were opposed to the ratification of the
Constitution, for a variety of reasons. Most of them believed that a list of the individual rights of
Americans should be added to the Constitution. (p. 111)
_____2. These men and women were advocates for the immediate ratification of the Constitution in
1788 – without a Bill of Rights. (p. 110)
_____3. This uprising of poor farmers in Massachusetts frightened wealthy Americans of status,
because they feared that debtors would use democratic methods to rob them of their property rights.
(102 – 103)
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_____4. When this uprising took place in Western Pennsylvania in 1794, the President of the United
States, George Washington, led an army of 13,000 men to the region to put down the revolt – proving
the power of the central government under the Constitution. (p. 158)
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_____5. Antifederalists insisted that this set of amendments guaranteeing individual rights must be
added to the Constitution before they would approve the document. James Madison would eventually
present the amendments, which would be ratified and added to the Constitution. (p. 154 – 155)
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_____6. John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison wrote this series of letters in favor of the
ratification of the Constitution. The letters were principally for the citizens of New York; however,
scholars still look to them today as the most eloquent explanations of Constitutional principles. (p. 112)
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_____7. This document was our nation’s first constitution. Under the government, there was only one
branch of government: the Congress. (p. 98)
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_____8. This government was created at a convention in Philadelphia; it was then ratified by the states.
Today, it remains the supreme law of the land in the United States of America. (p. 114)
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_____9. This is the compromise during the Constitutional Convention which resulted in our current
bicameral legislature – a House of Representatives elected with proportional representation and a
Senate with equal representation. (p. 106)
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_____10. This compromise allowed enslaved people to be counted as a part of the population of
southern states for the purposes of representation in Congress and taxation. This effectively gave slave
owners greater voting rights than citizens in states were slavery was not allowed. (p. 107)
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_____11. This law was passed under the Articles of Confederation. It divided western lands north of the
Ohio River, established procedures to create five new states, guaranteed the rights of American citizens
in those territories, and forbid slavery in the region. (p. 99 text, inset map.)
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_____12. This meeting was almost certainly illegal. It was called for the express purpose of amending
and revising the Articles of Confederation. It’s first decision was to throw out the Articles and start a
new government from scratch. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Ben
Franklin all attended the event and approved of the final document.
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CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS:
1781: ________________________________________________________________________________
1786: ________________________________________________________________________________
1787 (A): _____________________________________________________________________________
1787 (B): _____________________________________________________________________________
1787 (C): _____________________________________________________________________________
1787 (D): _____________________________________________________________________________
1787 – 1788: __________________________________________________________________________
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1789 – 1791: __________________________________________________________________________
1794: ________________________________________________________________________________