Exam 8: Building a Republic

New York's ratification of the Constitution assured the solidity and legitimacy of the new government, but the state was one of the last to approve the Constitution. What measures were taken in that state to promote ratification?

How did General George Washington disarm the soldiers responsible for plotting the Newburgh Conspiracy?

What was the effect of property qualifications on voters and candidates in the new states?

What threatened to prevent American settlement in the Northwest Territory?

Discuss the delegates to the Constitutional Convention and their commonalities, positions in society, wealth levels, and backgrounds.

Describe the basic structural features of the U.S. Constitution as set forth in the Great Compromise.

Match the term with the definition. -Farmer-led 1786-87 uprising centered in western Massachusetts. Dissidents protested taxation policies of the eastern elites who controlled the state's government. The uprising caused leaders throughout the country to worry about the confederation's ability to handle civil disorder.

Writers of the new state constitutions believed that voting requirements should

In a new distinction between democracy and republicanism, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention

Match the term with the definition. -A social philosophy that embraced representative institutions (as opposed to monarchy), a citizenry attuned to civic values above private interests, and a virtuous community in which individuals work to promote the public good.

Match the term with the definition. -James Madison's plan, presented at the opening of the Constitutional Convention, outlining a powerful three-branch government, with representation in both congressional houses tied to population. Madison's idea eclipsed the voice of small states in national government.

The Articles of Confederation were finally approved in 1781, when all the states agreed to surrender their

What were the major components of the final version of the Articles of Confederation, and what were the Articles' shortcomings?

How did Massachusetts respond to Shays's Rebellion?

Who was responsible for passing tax bills under the Articles of Confederation?

Discuss various ways in which the institution of slavery began to be eroded in the North after 1776.

What did pro-Constitution forces call themselves?

"There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid." How did the authors of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 intend states in the new territory to deal with fugitive slaves from other states?