A New Nation

1776-1815

Name:______

Birth of a New Government

  1. The new nation was based on the new ideas of ______and of government by the ______.
  2. What did they call this new government?
  3. Following the English model, Massachusetts created two legislatures known as :
  4. And an Executive Branch headed by a governor elected by whom?
  5. What rights did New Jersey give some women and blacks?
  6. How long did it take the states to ratify the Articles of Confederation?

To Be a Republican

  1. What was the biggest dispute?
  2. States that held the largest ownership to the western territories agreed to give their lands to whom?
  3. What was guaranteed by the Northwest Ordinance regarding slavery?
  4. What could children do in the New Republic?
  5. American women taught their children what?
  6. A movement began to support free public ______.
  7. Who did Benjamin Rush believe should go to school?
  8. In 1777, Vermont became the first state to do what?
  9. In the next 20 years, what area of the USA would outlaw slavery?

Shay’s Rebellion

  1. The feelings were growing that the Articles of Confederation needed to be ______.
  2. The farmers in Massachusetts armed themselves with pitchforks and muskets to keep judges from doing what?
  3. What did Daniel Shay and his followers attempt to do?
  4. This convinced many people that the weakness of the Articles of Confederation to suppress an insurrection was a ______weakness and a ______government had to be created.

The Constitutional Convention

  1. Where did the Constitutional Convention meet?
  2. They voted to do what to the doors and windows?
  3. Why?
  4. Who had written a new constitution before coming to the convention?
  5. What did his Virginia Plan call to create?
  6. The Virginia Plan wanted to give the government what 3 powers?
  7. The Virginia Plan also called for creating how many houses of congress?
  8. What were the names of the two houses and how were they to be elected?
  9. Who did he want the president to be elected by?
  10. The Virginia Plan also called for the number of each state’s representatives to be determined by what?
  11. Who objected to this representation?
  12. What was the objective of the New Jersey Plan?
  13. The New Jersey Plan wanted to give which branch of government more power?
  14. To keep equality in congress, the New Jersey plan wanted to use what equation for representation?
  15. What was the final result of the Great Compromise?

“Am I Not a Man and a Brother?”

  1. The new constitution would allow slavery to continue for how many years?
  2. And oblige non-slave states to do what with escaped slaves?
  3. And how to count slaves?
  4. How much did a slave count when compared to a free man?
  5. Did the new constitution have a bill of rights?

We the People

  1. How many states out of 13 had to agree to the new constitution?
  2. Supporters of the new constitution were called ______.
  3. What was the insisted we needed by the Federalist Papers?
  4. What were the opponents of the constitution called?
  5. They argued that if created a government more like a ______than a ______.
  6. The anti-federalist believed that only strong state governments could protect what?
  7. James Madison promised to add what to the constitution in order to get Virginia to agree to the constitution and why?

The Promise of Freedom

  1. Who was the first President of the United States of America?
  2. The first 10 amendments to the constitution are called what?
  3. These rights allow Americans to do what?
  4. Religious freedom is guaranteed by preventing government from doing what?
  5. The 10th amendment was designed to protect what?

Divisions within the Government

  1. Alexander Hamilton thought the new nation would grow rich and powerful by developing what?
  2. The US needed to pay of the huge debt from what war?
  3. Who did President Washington appoint as Secretary of Treasury?
  4. Hamilton’s plan to pay off the debt started by having who take over or assume the debts of the states?
  5. What states had already paid off their debt?
  6. The southern states agreed to Hamilton’s Assumption Plan, in exchange for what?
  7. What did they call the new Capital?
  8. How did Hamilton plan on paying off the debt?
  9. What tax was the last straw for the farmers of western Pennsylvania?
  10. What did these farmers do?
  11. How did President Washington respond to the Whiskey Rebellion?
  12. Who disapproved of the government’s use of strength?
  13. The government was being split into two angry factions (parts):

Liberty, Fraternity, Equality!

  1. After the French rebellion, the French wanted what?
  2. Washington declared that the US would not do what in this new war between France and England?
  3. What did French and English warships do to American vessels?

The Many or the Few?

  1. Who was elected after George Washington chose not to run for a third term in office?
  2. Fearing a new war with France, congress authorized taxes to do what?
  3. Who was the leader of the Democratic-Republicans?
  4. The Democratic-Republicans believed in what type of government?
  5. The Federalists want a strong nation built on what?
  6. Jefferson and the Democratic Republicans favored what type of nation?
  7. Why were the Alien and Sedition Acts passed?
  8. What was made criminal by the Alien and Sedition Acts?
  9. What happened to the Alien and Sedition Acts when Thomas Jefferson was elected president?

The Revolution of 1800

  1. What did the Federalists call Thomas Jefferson?
  2. What did the Democratic-Republicans accuse John Adams of?
  3. Was the transition from Federalist power to Democratic-Republicans peaceful?
  4. The bloody French revolution ended when who came to power?
  5. This proved how easy it was for a ______to fail.
  6. Through the art of ______the United States had survived.

The Marshall Court

  1. What did John Adams do the night before he stepped down from office?
  2. These judges were called what?
  3. What was created as a result of the Supreme Court case of Marbury v Madison?
  4. John Marshall the Chief Justice of the United States made the Supreme Court to an ______third branch of the US Government.
  5. Though congress passed laws it was up to the Supreme Court to decide what?
  6. The purchase of what territory doubled the size of the US?
  7. From whom was this land purchased?
  8. Why did he sell the land to the US?