The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals
These organized women’s groups protested British goods, supported boycotts, and supplied soldiers during the Revolutionary era.
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
This one-house national legislature, in which each state had one vote, governed under the Articles.
What is (a unicameral) Congress?
This 1785 measure set a standardized system for surveying and selling western lands.”
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
This compromise created a bicameral Congress with equal representation for states in one house and representation by population in the other.
What is the Great (Connecticut) Compromise?
These three men wrote the essays originally published in New York newspapers that argued for ratifying the Constitution.
Who are Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay? (The Federalist Papers)
Nicknamed ‘Molly Pitcher,’ she is famous for taking her husband’s place at an artillery piece during the Battle of Monmouth.
Who was Mary McCauley (Molly Pitcher)?
Under the Articles, each state received this number of votes in Congress regardless of size.
What is one?
This 1787 law provided the rules for creating new states from the Northwest Territory and banned this practice there
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (and what is slavery)?
This agreement counted each enslaved person as part of a fraction of a person for representation and taxation purposes.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Anti-Federalists’ main constitutional objection was that the new document lacked this set of protections for individual liberties.
What is a Bill of Rights?
This post-Revolution idea encouraged women to instruct their children in civic virtue so the new republic would survive.
What is Republican Motherhood?
To pass most important laws under the Articles, this many states’ approval was required out of 13.
What is nine?
Because the Confederation government couldn’t force repayment or control trade effectively, this country kept military outposts on U.S. soil after the Revolution.
What is Britain (British military posts)?
Delegates created this mechanism for selecting the chief executive because they feared direct popular election and wanted a buffer between the people and the presidency.
What is the Electoral College?
Federalists promised to remedy the Anti-Federalists’ greatest objection by making this their first order of business after ratification.
What is proposing and adding a Bill of Rights (to the Constitution)?
He led the Haitian Revolution, was inspired in part by the American Revolution, and became the most successful leader of enslaved people in history.
Who was Toussaint L’Ouverture?
Although Congress could make treaties and borrow money, it lacked this key fiscal authority to raise revenue.
What is the power to tax?
This 1786–87 armed uprising of indebted farmers in Massachusetts exposed the national government’s weakness in maintaining order.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
Northern and Southern delegates agreed that Congress could regulate interstate and foreign commerce but would not ban this for at least 20 years.
What is the international slave trade (ban delayed until 1808)?
This compromise between large- and small-state plans was advanced by Roger Sherman of Connecticut to resolve representation disputes.
What is the Connecticut (Great) Compromise?
The institution that contradicted Revolutionary rhetoric about equality and remained entrenched—especially in the South—even as some northern states moved toward gradual emancipation
What is slavery?
The Articles did not create separate branches for these two functions (one to execute laws and one to judge disputes)
What are the executive and judicial branches?
One economic consequence of weak centralized authority: many states and debtors resorted to printing this, which reduced its value and harmed commerce.
What is paper money (inflation/worthless currency)?
Article VII set the ratification rule: the Constitution would take effect once this number of states approved it via specially elected conventions.
What are nine states?
After the initial ratifying states in 1788, these two states were the last of the original 13 to ratify the Constitution (in 1789 and 1790).
What are North Carolina (November 1789) and Rhode Island (May 1790)?