Confederation and Constitution
(1776-1790)
Chapter 9
1.What effect did the exodus of 80,000 Loyalists have on the new nation?
**2.What political, economic and cultural changes occurred as a result of the
revolution?
3.What were the limits to these revolutionary changes?
4.What was “Republican Motherhood” and how did it change the mother’s role in
the family?
5.How were state constitutions departures from the English law?
6.What similar elements were present in the state constitutions?
7.Depict in detail the economic picture at the end of the war. (1780’s)
8.Why was the ceding of all western lands by the states to the Confederation
Congress by 1781 significant to the course of Am. history?
9.Articles of Confederation – What were the flaws in the structure of Congress
under the articles?
10.Articles of Confederation- What were the weaknesses in its authority over the
states which created the slogan that it was a “government by supplication”.
11.Articles of Confederation – Why were the Articles valuable (significant)?
12.Define the provisions and significances of theLand Ordinance of 1785 -
Define the provisions and significances of the Northwest Ordinance (1787)
13.Foreign Affairs – (1780’s) Identify the points of conflict between the US and
Britain, Spain and France and North African states
14.Identify some of the quarrels between the states that were creating division in the
Union in the 1780’s.
15.Shays’s Rebellion: Why did Daniel Shays revolt and why was the rebellion
significant?
for the leg. passed legislation to loosen the currency.
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Constitutional Convention –
16.Characterize the occupations and beliefs of the 55 delegates that attended the 4
monthconstitutional convention (May-Sept. 1787) in Philadelphia and their
largest concern at the outset. Why was it probably good in hindsight that Sam
Adams,John Hancock and Patrick Henry were absent from the convention?
17.Chart the Virginia Planand the New Jersey Plan
18.Great Compromise – What was it?
19.Presidency – what powers did he have and how were they checked by Congress?
20.“Bundle of Compromises” – State and define the compromises made that
allowed the Constitution to be passed.
21.What safeguards were emplaced to prevent excesses by the “mob”?
22.What democratic elements were imbedded in the Constitution?
23.What unique mechanism was emplaced by the Founding Fathers that helped get
around unanimous approval by every state to implement the Constitution? Why
was this important?
24.Federalists – What constituent groups composed this camp? Who were their
leaders?
25.Anti-Federalists – What constituent groups composed this camp? Who were their
leaders? What major disagreements did they have with the new Constitution?
26.Federalist Papers – What were they? Who wrote them? Why was Madison’s
Federalist #10 so significant?