Lesson 8.1 • constitution • Suffrage • Northwest Ordinance of 1787 • Articles of Confederation • Where ideas for American government came from • Land Ordinance of 1785 • republic
Lesson 8.1• constitution• Suffrage• Northwest Ordinance
of 1787• Articles of
Confederation
• Where ideas for American government came from
• Land Ordinance of 1785
• republic
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
• A document that divided the land given up by Virginia
• Created a system for bringing new states into the Union. To apply for statehood, there must be at least 60,000 people living there.
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Articles of Confederation
The government immediately after the American Revolution
Very weak central government with very limited powers - most of the powers went to the states
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Where ideas for American government came from
• Magna Carta• English Bill of Rights• Parliament• House of Burgesses• Fundamental Orders
of Connecticut• Mayflower Compact
• Declaration of Independence
• New England town meetings
• Great Awakening• John Locke and
Enlightenment (not 2 separate answers)
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Land Ordinance of 1785
A system for surveying and dividing the public territory.
Split the land into townships.
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republic
A type of government where the head of state
(person in charge) is elected and the people
hold the power8.1
Lesson 8.2• Creditors• Debtors• inflation
• Shays’s Rebellion• Interstate commerce• Weaknesses under
the Articles of Confederation
Shays’s Rebellion
Farmers who could not pay their taxes and were losing their property or being forced to go to prison participated in a revolt to
close down the courthouses.
This is an example of how angry people were with the government under the
Articles of Confederation
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Weaknesses under the Articles of Confederation
Weaknesses• Could not force states to provide soldiers for an army• Could not enforce treaties with foreign countries• Could not regulate interstate commerce• Could not levy (charge) taxes• Lack of respect from other countries• Problems with other countries
– Spain closed the Mississippi River– Britain charged high tariffs (taxes)– Britain closed its ports to US ships
• Shay’s Rebellion8.2
Lesson 8.3• Constitutional
Convention• New Jersey Plan• Virginia Plan• Three-fifths
Compromise
• Checks and Balances• James Madison• Thomas Jefferson• George Washington
Constitutional Convention
Convention in which delegates discussed
revising the Articles of Confederation
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New Jersey Plan
A plan that based representation in
Congress on equality
Favored the small states8.3
Virginia Plan
A plan that based representation in
Congress on population
Favored the large states8.3
Three-Fifths Compromise
Resolved disputes over representation in the southern slave states
Said that 5 slaves = 3 people when determining
representation.8.3
James Madison
• Took very good notes at the Constitutional Convention
• One of the authors of the Federalist Papers
• A Federalist
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Thomas Jefferson
• Was not able to attend the Constitutional Convention – he was an ambassador at the time
• Antifederalist – supported the Bill of Rights
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George Washington
• Representative from Virginia• Elected to be president of the
Constitutional Convention• Federalist
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Federalists
People who supported the Constitution
Believed that the Constitution provided a good balance of state and national powers
Names of Federalists• Paul Revere• James Madison• George Washington• Benjamin Franklin• Alexander Hamilton• John Jay
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Antifederalists
People who opposed the Constitution
Wanted to add a Bill of Rights
- OR -
Thought it gave too much power to the central government
Names of Antifederalists
• Richard Henry Lee• Mercy Otis Warren• Sam Adams• Patrick Henry• George Mason• Thomas Jefferson
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ratification
To approve
9 of the 13 states needed to ratify the Constitution before it
went into effect.
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