Ratifying the Constitution
He was the leader and referee of the Constitutional Convention
Who was George Washington?
This was the most dangerous and difficult part of the Atlantic Slave Trade
What was the Middle Passage?
This is a type of source written after an event by someone that had nothing to do with the event.
What is a secondary source?
One of the reasons the Articles of Confederations was weak because it could not collect these
What are taxes?
This is the group at the Constitutional Convention that knew that no matter what government the USA ended up with, it NEEDED a bill of rights to protect people
Who were the AntiFederalists?
This is why the Northerners did not want to count enslaved people in the population.
What is they wanted a way to have control so they could end slavery?
This is the term we use when we determine a source is legitimate and can be trusted
What is credibility?
This is the full name of the man that started Shays' Rebellion
Who was Daniel Shays
This is what the Southerners wanted when they claimed to believe that enslaved people should be counted as one person in population counts
What is power?
This is the group that was the original enslaved people in America before the majority passed away die to smallpox and other illnesses
Who are the Native Americans?
This is the term used to describe when a primary source's author allows their emotions or past experiences to interfere with them forming an opinion
What is Bias?
The Articles of Confederation were trashed in this meeting
What was the Constitutional Convention?
This is the term that means "two houses" in Congress
What is bicameral?
This is the name of Thomas Jefferson's house/plantations where he held hundreds of enslaved people
What is Monticello?
This is any example of a primary source that we read in class over the past two months.
What is Slave Ship, Enslaved man, Washington letter, Jefferson Letter, Hamilton, or Smith?
This is what Massachusetts crated after Shays' Rebellion to help poor farmers
What are debt relief programs?
A historian studying the Constitution’s ratification reads The Federalist Papers and Anti-Federalist writings. Which conclusion best figures out the credibility of these sources?
A. Both are biased, but comparing them reveals the strongest arguments from each side
B. Only The Federalist Papers are reliable because they supported ratification. The Anti-Federalist writings are biased
C. Anti-Federalist writings are more credible because they predicted future problems. The Federalist papers are biased
D. Neither source should be used because they are too political.
What is A?
Which of the following best describes the culture of the USA at this time period?
A. Southerners did not have a lot of enslaved people so they did not care if slavery ended, while Northerners had no enslaved people and were trying to end slavery
B. The educated lower class of the Western states were trying to control the government and take power from the Federalists
C. The upper class was trying to gain power so they could end slavery while the lower class was trying to gain power to make slavery permenent
D. Northerners did not have a lot of enslaved people, so they were trying to end slavery while the Southerners who had a lot of enslaved people were trying to make it permanent.
What is D?
You find a newspaper from Boston describing Shays’ Rebellion. Which of the sources below would you use to corroborate the newspaper's account?
A. A battle plan written by Washington during the American Revolution
B. A letter from a Massachusetts farmer who was broken out of prison during Shays' Rebellion
C. A book talking about different types of livestock in the 1780s
D. A speech by Thomas Jefferson during his Presidency
What is B?
Which of the following options tells the complete story of Shays' Rebellion?
A. Shays’ Rebellion was only a local farmers’ protest about taxes
B. Shays’ Rebellion proved farmers were unwilling to obey laws
c. Shays’ Rebellion was both a struggle for farmers’ rights and a spark for national reform
D. Shays' Rebellion is what started the American Revolution
What is C?