Transcript CRITICAL PERIOD - Burke County Public Schools

CRITICAL PERIOD
EFFECTS OF THE REVOLUTION
1. INDEPENDENCE!!!!
2. Land
-East of the Mississippi
3. Society
- more social equality
-property owning
-white men
4. Women
-suggest rights (Abigail Adams)
-did not receive any
-cult of domesticity
-Republican Motherhood
5. African Americans
-some awarded freedom
-prejudice
-still enslaved (South)
6. Native Americans
-lands lost to white settlement
7. ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION!!!!
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
SUCCESSES
1. Won the Revolution
2. Land Ordinance
-plan for dividing land
-36 Sections (640 Acres)
-1 section for the church
- Section 16 for education
-2 or 3 sections sold by government
3. Northwest Ordinance
-rules for becoming a state
-governor appointed
-5,000 residents (Constitution)
-60,000 residents (statehood)
-blueprint for growth of America
FAILURES
1. Weak
-states had the power
-no executive
2. Debt
-no taxes
3. British were allowed to keep forts
4. No protection from Indians
5. SHAY’S REBELLION
-Massachusetts
-victims of STATE taxation
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
Problems:
1. Representation
-Virginia Plan
-large states (population)
-New Jersey Plan
-small states (equal)
-GREAT COMPROMISE
-bicameral legislature (Congress)
-House of Representatives
-proportional (population)
-Senate ( 2 per state)
2. Slavery
-North
-count toward taxes
-not representation
-South
-not toward taxes
-toward representation
-3/5 COMPROMISE
-each slave will count 3/5 of a person
-toward taxes and representation
3. Commerce/Slave Trade
-Tariffs (taxes on imports)
-North: tariffs protect
business
-South: tariffs raise prices
-Slave Trade
-North: no importing of slaves
-South: need to import slaves
-COMMERCE/SLAVE TRADE COMPROMISE
-Tariffs are allowed
-Slave trade allowed until 1808
4. Presidential Elections
-Aristocrats: only educated can vote
-Democrats: all men
should vote
-ELECTORAL COLLEGE
-electoral votes: reps + senators
-winner of popular vote gets all
electoral votes from the state (today)
RATIFICATION???
FEDERALISTS
-Washington, Hamilton,
Madison, Jay
-strong national government
-separation of powers
-checks and balances
-protection
-FEDERALIST PAPERS
-essays
-support the Constitution
ANTI-FEDERALISTS
-Henry, Samuel Adams
-strong state governments
-federal government is too
powerful
-no protection of rights
-BILL OF RIGHTS