Homework 9: Chapter 5 Experimenting with Confederation/Drafting the Constitution/Ratifying the Constitution
Read pages 132 to 149. Answer all questions.
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What were the two rules that John Dickenson lived by as a member of Congress?
What was central to the debate about creating a new government? Look at the bottom of page 132.
Why did the states not want a unifying government in the days after the Revolution?
What is the difference between a republic and republicanism?
Why were so many Americans afraid of too much power in the hands of the uneducated masses?
What did the early state Constitutions look like after the Revolution?
What were the sources of democracy from history that the Founding Fathers looked to as an example?
How did the Continental Congress answer the following 3 questions that faced the US? Explain why.
Representation in Congress should be by state or by population?
How should supreme power be dealt with? Should it be divided with the states or kept to the national government?
How should western lands be divided between the states? Or should new states be created?
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What was the Land Ordinance of 1785?
How did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 help create new states?
What was the ultimate weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
Why were large states upset with the Articles of Confederation?
How did the Congress plan to deal with a debt of over $190 million?
Why did the disagreement between debtors and creditors (borrowers and banks) threaten the nation?
How could nations such as Spain, France, and Britain threaten the infant USof A?
Look at the photo on page 138. How did the Land Ordinance of 1785 shape that photo of farms?
Who was Daniel Shays and what was he upset about?
How did Shay’s Rebellion threaten the nation?
What action did George Washington take that may have saved the US from disintegration?
What are the important results of the Annapolis Convention?
Why are James Madison and Roger Sherman the two most important guys at the Constitutional Convention?
Why was George Washington elected chairman of the Constitutional Convention?
What were the names and purposes of the 2 proposed plans to represent large/small states?
How did the Great Compromise satisfy large and small states?
How did the delegates handle the issue of slavery?
Why was the slave trade not regulated for 20 years? Look at the top of page 143.
What is federalism and why did it work so well?
How do the separation of powers create checks and balances?
What is the electoral college?
Why was it needed?
What qualities made John Jay a powerful political force?
Who were the Federalists and what were their beliefs?
Who was the leader of the Federalists?
Who were the Anti Federalists and what were their beliefs?
In what way did the Federalist Papers change the minds of Americans?
Why was a Bill of Rights essential to protecting American Freedom?