Guiding Questions: Chapter 9
The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790
Constitutional Precedents
1. What was the effect of the departure of some 80,000 Loyalists? 166
2. What was the importance of the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom? 167
3. What was the state of slavery in the colonies after the war? 167
4. What was “Republican Motherhood” i.e. what role were women to play in this new era? 168
5. What was unique about the Massachusetts constitution? 168
6. What features did the state constitutions have in common? 168
7. What were some of the American economic instabilities in the post-revolutionary era? 170
The Articles of Confederation
8. Why did Pennsylvania and Maryland delay signing the Articles of Confederation? 171
9. What kind of government was created under the Articles? 172
10. What many limits were placed on this new government, and what many problems resulted? 173
11. What were the greatest achievements of the new government under the Articles? 173
12. What was the Land Ordinance of 1785?
13. What was the Land Ordinance of 1787?
Problems under the Articles
14. How did the new U.S. fare in foreign relations with the following: 175
a. Britain
b. Spain
Guiding Questions: Chapter 9
The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790
c. France
d. Pirates of North Africa (Barbary Pirates)
15. What were Daniel Shays and his rebels rebelling about? 176
16. Why did Shays’ Rebellion create such concern, and what was the response? 176
The Constitutional Convention
17. Why were the delegates at the constitutional convention so concerned about secrecy? 177
18. Who was the typical convention delegate? 178
19. Which major figures did and did not show up? 178
Constitutional Compromises
20. Compare and contrast the large-state and small-state plans. 179
Big State Plan
Small State Plan
21. What was the Great Compromise? 180
22. How did the 3/5 Compromise resolve the question of slave representation? 180
23. What was the purpose of the Electoral College?
Federalists & Antifederalists
24. Who made up the Antifederalists? Why did they oppose the Constitution? 182
25. Who made up the Federalists? 182
Guiding Questions: Chapter 9
The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790
The Great Debate
26. What were the Federalist Papers? What did they do? 185
A New Government
27. Why were the Federalists called the conservatives? 186
28. Why were the Antifederalists considered more liberal? 187
I.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1. Alexander Hamilton
2. James Madison
3. “mobocracy”
4. consent of the governed
5. republicanism
6. confederation
7. “Great Compromise”
8. Articles of Confederation
9. Electoral College
10. Land Ordinance of 1785
11. “three-fifths compromise”
12. Northwest Ordinance of 1787
13. antifederalists
14. Shay’s Rebellion
15. Federalists
16. “large-state plan”
17. The Federalist