Chapter
8
Review
Discontent in the New Nation
What powers
did the new
government
have?
Declare war
coin money
establish post offices
send or recall
ambassadors
What
important
powers did the
government
not have ?
Impose taxes
regulate trade between
states
national court system
What three basic
principles did
the A of C
establish?
System to organize
western lands
Way for new states to
enter the Union
Prohibited slavery north
of the Ohio River
a federal law that organized
the lands of the
Northwest Territory into
townships
Land Ordinance of
1785
a federal law that established how new
states
would come into the Union; also
prohibited slavery north of the Ohio River
Northwest Ordinance
of 1787
The chairman of the convention
to develop the U.S. Constitution
was
George
Washington
Explain the
Virginia Plan –
Proposed
by
Edmund
Randolph
of
Virginia,
Large State Plan
Bicameral
Legislature
Lower house
members elected by
qualified voters
membership
Based on
free
population,
state legislatures
would select
upper house
members
Explain
the New
Jersey
Plan –
New Jersey
Small state plan,
congress would be
unicameral, each
state would get
one vote
Explain the
Great
Compromise
Upper house
(senate) would
have two elected
members,
membership in the
lower house would
be based on
population (house of
representatives )
slaves would
be counted as
three-fifths of a
person
How would
slaves be
counted as
population?
Three-fifths
representatives
from western
Virginia
Philip
Doddridg,
Alexander
Campbell,
Lewis
Summers
Phillip Doddridge
Alexander Campbell
the main issues of the
Convention of 1830
Suffrage,
representation
geographic
differences in
eastern and
western Virginia
East-flat
West- hilly
Economic
differences
East - plantation
West – small farm
farm, industry
Religious
differences
East - Episcopal
West - many
Representative
differences
East - unequal,
count slaves
West - equal
Led a slave revolt
Nat Turner
Wrote a
pamphlet
against
slavery
Henry
Ruffner
people who
wanted to
end slavery
abolitionist
What did proslavery forces
use to defend
their position?
Bible
What religion
supported
slavery?
Episcopal
What arguments did those who
supported slavery use?
• The founding fathers had not
rejected slavery when writing the
Constitution.
• Slavery was mentioned in the Bible
• If slavery had been profitable in
the West it would have been
accepted
What arguments did those who
opposed slavery use?
• Slavery was against the
Declaration of Independence.
• Slavery was against the
teachings of the Bible
What church
split over the
slavery issue?
Methodist
Explain the results
of the Reform
Convention of
1850
1.Representation
– slaves would
no longer be
counted
2.Voting regulations
– property ownership
abolished,white
males, 21
3.Capitation
tax- tax on
every voter
to go to
education
As a result of the Convention of
1850, jurors would
1. be paid
2. be registered voters
3. not be courthouse loungers
What did the
growth and
prosperity of the
west depend on?
Internal
improvements,
closer
connections
with the
industrial
North
two house
legislature
Bicameral
sent by one
country as a
representative
to another
Ambassador
a way to settle
disagreements
Compromise
framework
of a
government
constitution
More than
half
majority
Organized lands
of the Northwest
Territory into
townships
Land
Ordinance
of 1785
roads,bridges,
and other
transportation
needs
Internal
improvements
the process
of freeing
the slaves
emancipation
a citizen
chosen to
serve on a
jury
juror
approval
ratification
the vote by
citizens in
an election
popular vote
Established
how new states
could come
into the Union
Northwest
Ordinance
of 1787
Small
state plan
New
Jersey
Plan
Large
state plan
Virginia
Plan
to redraw
the
boundaries
reapportion
a 6-mile
square block
of land
township
tax on goods
brought into a
state from
another state or
country
tariff
an exaggerated
loyalty to the
interest of
one’s own area
sectionalism
the right
to vote
suffrage
The second
constitution
The United
States
Constitution
Be able to
draw and
label a
township