Shay’s Rebellion
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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
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Treaty of Fort Stanwix
- A temporary peace treaty was signed between some of the Iroquois and the U.S. government to secure the New York border.
- Some Natives didn’t respect the treaty.
- Began to create an Indian confederation that could resist the United States. Included many different tribes.
- One of the most unified and effective adversaries that the United States would face.
Republican Motherhood
the belief that women should have more rights and a better education so that they might support husbands and raise sons who would actively participate in the political affairs of society
Annapolis Convention
September 1786: five states sent delegates to a convention in Maryland.
- Asked for a convention in Philadelphia to discuss the issues with the articles of confederation.
- Goal was to revise the Articles of Confederation.
Constitutional Convention of 1787
- 55 delegates met Philadelphia
- Most were young
- 29 had college degrees.
- Only 8 had signed the Declaration of Independence
James Madison
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Virginia Plan
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seperation of powers
divided the power between congress, the executive branch, and judiciary branch
federalism
both the central national government and the individual state government had power
New Jersey Plan
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proportional representation
representatives elected directly by the voters of districts based on the size of a state’s population
Great Compromise
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Newburgh Conspiracy
March 1783: John Armstrong published “Newburgh Addresses” in which he argued that officers needed to meet to discuss the situation at hand.
Alexander Hamilton
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Connecticut Plan
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Electoral College
Each state selects presidential electors according to the number of its senators and representatives in Congress. Those electors would then chose the next president
three-fifths clause
Pennsylvania’s James Wilson offered a compromise:
- Slaves would be counted as 3/5 a person for representation purposes.
- Didn’t actually use the word slaves, stated ‘those bound to servitude’
John Adams
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Anti-federalists
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- argued the Constitution lacked a bill of rights
- thought it was too close to the power they had fought against with the British
Federalists
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-Used the fear of Shay’s Rebellion and Native attacks as justification for the need of a new stronger government
Benjamin Banneker
- free African-American
- parents were slaves
- wrote to Thomas Jefferson in 1791, to remind Jefferson of what he penned in the Constitution “that all med are created equal…”
Abigail Adams
- wife to John Adams
- plead to her husband and the Continental Congress to “remember the ladies”, in hopes of equality
Yorktown
-Cornwallis surrendered to Washington on October 10, 1781 in Yorktown
