Give Me Liberty | Chapter 7

Who played a key role in the republic by training future citizens?

Women

What did the idea of republican motherhood reinforce?

the trend toward the idea of "companionate" marriage

What was the first written constitution of the United States?

The Articles of Confederation

What did the Articles have?

One-house Congress, no president and no judiciary

What are the only powers granted to the national government for the Articles

declaring war, conducting foreign affairs and making treaties

Peace brought rapid settlement where?

frontier areas

The Ordinance of 1785 did what?

regulated land sales in the region north of the Ohio River

What did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 do?

established policy that admitted the areas population as equal members of the political system

The Articles of Confederation couldn't adequately address what?

the economic crises the war created

With Congress unable to act on the debt, states did what?

adopted their own economic policies

What did Shay's Rebellion demonstrate?

the need for more central government to ensure private liberty

Why was a new constitution needed?

because Nationalists wanted to avoid either anarchy or monarchy

The Constitutional Convention was populated by who?

Wealthy, well educated men

The Constitution was to create what?

a legislature, an executive and a national judiciary

The final compromise was agreed on based on what two plans?

Virginia and New Jersey

The Virginia Plan favored _____ and the New Jersey Plan favored ____

Big States, small states

The Constitution embodies federalism and what?

a system of checks and balances

What does a separation of power, or checks and balances refer to?

the way the Constitution seeks to prevent any branch of the national government from domination the other two

Delegates signed the final draft of the Constitution when?

September 17, 1787

Nine of the thirteen states wanted to what?

ratify the Constitution

What was published to generate support for ratification?

The Federalist, in which Hamilton argued that government was an expression of freedom, not its enemy

Madison argued what about the ratification?

that the large size of the US was a source of stability, not weakness.

Madison helped popularize the liberal idea that what?

men are generally motivated by self-interest and that the good of society arises from the clash of these private interests

Who opposed the ratification?

Anti-Federalists

What did the Anti-Federalists oppose about ratification?

they argued that the republic had the be small and warned that the Constitution would result in a government of oppression

Madison introduced what to the first Congress?

a Bill of Rights, which defined the "unalienable rights" to the Declaration of Independence

What was Alexander Hamilton's long-range goal?

to make the United States a major commercial and military power

Who was opposed to Hamilton's plan? Why?

James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. Hamilton's plan depended on a close relationship with Britain and they believed the US future was to lay westward, not with Britain

The Federalist Party supported who and what?

Washington and Hamilton's economic plan and close ties with Britain

What happened in the Whiskey Rebellion?

The United States put a tax on farmers whose corn made whiskey. Farmers protested in Pennsyvania. It was a formal display of individuality against inject taxation on the purchase of whiskey

What did the Whiskey Rebellion prove?

it proved to Federalists that democracy in the hands of ordinary citizens was dangerous