Exam 9: The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790

If you had been a delegate to the Constitutional Convention,what one or two features of the document would you have altered or eliminated? What one or two provisions would you have added?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Quaker anti-slavery society of Philadelphia

All of these foreign powers attempted to interfere with American trade and independence after the revolutionary war EXCEPT

Which aspect of the new Constitution did the antifederalists find most alarming?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Old Northwest

Which Revolutionary leader was present at the Constitutional Convention?

What influential law resulted from the state-level struggles to separate church and state?

What portion of the adult white male population is thought to have voted for the delegates to the Constitutional ratifying conventions?

The Articles of Confederation left Congress unable to

When the first attempt to revise the Articles of Confederation in 1786 in Annapolis failed,who engineered another convention in Philadelphia?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Benjamin Franklin

Wartime problems left the American economy damaged by the 1780s.What was NOT one of those problems?

As written documents,the state constitutions were intended to

Whose contributions to the Philadelphia Convention were so notable that he has been called the "Father of the Constitution"?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Alexander Hamilton

Thomas Jefferson once said he believed that "all the good" of the new Constitution might have been accomplished by simply amending the Articles of Confederation.What was gained with the Constitution? Would ratification of amended Articles of Confederation have been harder or easier than the ratification of the new Constitution turned out to be?

What did the Virginia -- or "large state" -- Plan call for?

The Founders believed that the ultimate guarantor of liberty,justice,and order was

What made the Articles of Confederation akin to "government by supplication"?

What were the main arguments between federalists and anti-federalists in the debate over the Constitution? Why did the federalists win the ratification struggle?