Chapter 6
The American negotiators at the Treaty of Paris 1783.
Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay
The administrative problems with the Articles of Confederation.
Congress could not raise taxes to pay off war debt, no executive branch to enforce laws, states would tax each other, states were printing their own money (that was at times worthless)
The man whose diary is used to describe to historians what occurred at the Constitutional Convention.
James Madison
The plan that larger states supported because they would be represented by population.
the Virginia Plan
The reasons why Cornwallis had to surrender at Yorktown.
He had no support from the British Navy because he was surrounded.
He was outnumbered 2 to 1.
The five territories within the Northwest Territory that eventually became states.
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin
The two important pieces of legislature that were passed under the Articles of Confederation.
the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Territory Land Ordinance of 1787
The author of the Connecticut Compromise.
Roger Sherman
The results of the Treaty of Paris 1783.
The American colonies were granted independence from Britain.
All lands east of the Mississippi River were given to the Americans.
Florida was returned to Spain.
The remaining British troops were required to leave the colonies.
The delegate from New York that favored a strong central government.
Alexander Hamilton
he type of system of government that was formed that divided the governments powers between the national government and the state government.
federal system
The three authors of the Federalist Papers.
James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton
The two battles in the south where the colonists won in territory that was supposed to be easy for the British.
King's Mountain and Cowpens
The year the Constitutional Convention was held.
1787
The system put in place to ensure the three branches of government do not exercise too much power.
system of checks and balances
The three reasons why the Constitution has lasted so long.
Americans have made it work, the Constitution can be amended, the founding fathers recognized that all people have faults and that power should be limited to avoid corruption and abuse
The year the Constitution was finally approved by all the states.
1790
The principle that ensures no branch of government has too much power.
Principle of Separation of Powers