1 / 16

Chapter 8

Chapter 8. Building a Republic 1775-1789. Articles of Confederation. Where would Sovereignty Lie? What would be the nature of representation? Who would hold power of taxation? Who should vote and who should rule?

vincent-mckenzie
Download Presentation

Chapter 8

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Chapter 8 Building a Republic 1775-1789

  2. Articles of Confederation • Where would Sovereignty Lie? • What would be the nature of representation? • Who would hold power of taxation? • Who should vote and who should rule? • All these questions were for the time being answered in the Articles of confederation!

  3. Articles of Confederation • Agreements: • Key government powers, pursuing war and peace, Foreign Relations, regulating trade, and running a postal service. • Disagreements: • Western boundaries of the states, who owned the land, who governed the land, issue with charters all the way to Mississippi river. • In the beginning: Articles of Confederation November 1777. • States were a firm league of friendship, no executive or judicial branch and 1 vote per state.

  4. Articles of Confederation • Regular decisions needed 7 states to vote, major decisions needed 9, to approve or amend needed unanimous vote. How did that create a problem? • Taxes were based on population, and went to state government, but nothing created that made them contribute their fair share! • Issues over land in the west. 5 states Maryland, New York, Delaware, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania wanted land controlled by Govt. to eventually create new states. • Everyone forgot that the Indians were living on those lands. • Maryland and Delaware would not sign. • Thomas Jefferson and James Madison gave Virginia land to national domain and in 1781 Confederation ratified.

  5. State Constitutions • Each state made citizens loyal to them, not worrying about the national landscape. • Each state had to draw up a constitution. • All set for a democracy, government run by the people. • All states had two chambers, upper and lower house. • Six states had bill of rights, Virginia was the first in 1776. • Some of these rights are, freedom of speech, press, trial by jury, and unalienable rights.

  6. Read and Interpret • Read the sections: Who are “ The people” , Equality and slavery, Legal changes to slavery 177-1804 • Answer the question “ How did states determine who would be allowed to vote” • Answer the Following questions…..

  7. Reading Questions • 1. In order to hold a high office position you had to property qualifications? T or F • 2. How would you feel if you fought in the revolutionary war, but did not own land so could not vote? • 3. Elizabeth Alexander was allowed to vote in New Jersey for state elections even though she was not a property owner? T or F • 4. “ All Men are born free and equal” does this include slaves? Why or why not? • 5. Vermont outlawed slavery in 1777? T or F • 6. Quak Walker and Mum Bett were slaves who filed a lawsuit on what basis? Did they win?

  8. Reading Questions • 7. 8-10,000 thousand slaves escaped the south when the British left? T or F • 8. What does the word emancipation mean? • 9. What effect does all this have to do with the dates 1861-1865? • 10. Cato Ramsey was a day laborer for whites in New York? T/F

  9. Confederation Problems • What was the problem with the printed money? • What happened to debtors? • Who is Robert Morris? • Bank of North America…. What was it supposed to do? Did it work? • Treaty of Fort Stanwix. Us and Seneca Chief Cornplanter, and Aaron Hill and Mohawk leader. • Did this treaty stop the violence in the Ohio Territory?

  10. Northwest Territory • Jefferson’s plan • Give away the land! • North of Ohio River, and east of Mississippi river • Representative Govt. In new states. • Slavery prohibited in 10 new states. • Parts of this were adopted in ordinance of 1784, except giving away the land, and slavery prohibition. • Ordinance of 1785 called for 3 to 5 states instead of 10. • Minimum purchase is 640 acres in hard money.

  11. Northwest Territory • 1787 Northwest Ordinance- 3 stage process to statehood. • 1. adopt a legal code, and appoint magistrates. • 2. when voting male population hit 5k, they could elect legislature and send non voting member to congress. • 3. Voting males hit 60k write state constitution. • Jefferson plan to outlaw slavery was passed as well. • Read Shays Rebellion.

  12. Shays Rebellion • 11. where the people in coastal Massachusetts petitioning against oppressive taxation? T or F • 12. The armed men marched on the Governor of Massachusetts and would not leave until he agreed to stop taxation? T/F • 13. Who was the leader of the group and what was his background? • 14. Governor Bowdoin army beat the rebellion at Petersham, and killed their leader. T or F • 15. How many men were taken prisoner and jailed?

  13. US Constitution • Alexander Hamilton wanted to strengthen Federal Government. • Met in Philly in 1787, to fix loopholes in articles of confederation. • Virginia Plan called for a three branch government based on state representation in the legislature, and an executive branch and judiciary branch to keep the powers spread. • New Jersey plan wanted more states rights and 3 presidents. • Agreed on 2 house legislature one based on population. • Great Compromise made our Government of today.

  14. Democracy • What are the three branches of Government? • What is each ones job? • How do they check and balance each other? • How are people put into the office of the branches? • What are your thoughts on how the framers created the Constitution?

  15. Federalist vs Anti- Federalist • Federalist- for the Constitution • Anti-federalist- Against the constitution. • Virginia only accepts after they give 20 amendments to consider. • Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay compose the Federalist Papers- 85 essays on political philosophy. • Finally New York Ratifies with anti-federalist getting 24 individual rights they hope to be protected. • Took 12 months to write and ratify the constitution.

  16. Quiz Questions • 16. The Federalist papers were actually written by anti-federalist? T or F • 17. They needed 7 states to approve constitution to be ratified? T/F • 18. The president is on what branch of Government? • 19.The president has the power to veto congressional bills? T/F • 20. The judicial branch interprets the laws? t/f

More Related