The Confederation and the Constitution 1776-1790

1. The Confederation and the Constitution1776-1790 Chapter 9 P. 164-189

4. Statehouse in 1778 • Built 1730s • Meeting place for PA colonial assembly • Witnessed much history • * Washington given command • of continental army • * Declaration of Independence • signed • * Constitution hammered out • Began to be called “Independence Hall” in • the 1820s.

5. State Capitals Move West After the Declaration there was a relocation of state capitals away from the eastern seaboard cities reflecting the expansion of democracy.

6. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom of 1786 • “Be it enacted by the General Assembly that • no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever • nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief • but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.”

8. Abolition Movement

9. Republican Motherhood

12. Western Land Cessions to the United States 1782-1802

13. Surveying the Old Northwest

14. Surveying the Old Northwest

15. Land Ordinance 1785

16. Main Centers of Spanish and British Influence After 1783

17. Barbary States/North Africa

18. Shays Rebellion 1786-1787

19. Daniel Shays and his rebellion have become a symbol of the tensions and controversies of the post-war years of republican experimentation.

20. Evolution of Union 1643-present

21. William Paterson The New Jersey Plan Roger Sherman Connecticut Compromise The Great Compromise James Madison The Virginia Plan

23. Three-Fifths Compromise

24. Constitutional Convention 1787Signing the Constitution

25. Rising Sun Symbol at the Top of Washington’s Chair • Brass sun adorned the chair in which Washington sat during the Constitutional Convention • Pondering the symbol, Benjamin Franklin observed • “I have happiness to know it is a rising and not a setting sun.”

27. Struggle over Ratification

28. Rhode Island and North Carolina refused to ratify the Constitution until a Bill of Rights was included.

29. Anti-Federalists Patrick Henry George Mason Richard Henry Lee

30. Anti-Federalists Prominent Anti-Federalists Characteristics • Samuel Adams • Patrick Henry • George Mason • Richard Henry Lee • Of the poorer class • Small farmers (yeomen) • Backcountry dwellers

32. Federalists Alexander Hamilton James Madison John Jay Authors of The Federalist Papers

33. Federalists PROMINENT fEDERALISTS CHARACTERISTICS • George Washington • Benjamin Franklin • Alexander Hamilton • James Madison • John Jay • Wealthy • Lived along the eastern seaboard • Controlled the majority of the newspapers • Business owners • Owned significant amounts of land

34. Ratification of the Constitution

35. Ratification