History Chapter 7
History Chapter 7
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- approve Constitution
- 9/13 states needed to _____
- Three-Fifths Compromise
- deals with how to count slaves
- 1783 Massachusetts court
- ruled slavery illegal
- James Madison
- wrote the Virginia Plan
- 1774 Quakers
- form 1st American Antislavery Society
- Shay's Rebellion
- rebellion of farmers in 1787
- May 1787
- Constitutional Convention met in Pennsylvania; Washington came
- Virginia Plan
- 2 house legislature, a chief executive chosen by the legislature, and a court system
- New Jersey Plan
- amended Articles of Confederation; Congress could tax and regulate trade
- Northwest Ordinance
- created NW Territory (land N of Ohio R. and land E of Miss. R.)
- manumission
- the freeing of a large number of enslaved persons
- 1784-1804 CT, RI, NY, NJ
- passed laws that gradually ended slavery
- Articles of Confederation
- America's 1st Constitution
- proportional vote
- Virginia Plan
- each state had 1 vote
- New Jersey Plan
- William Paterson
- was rallied around by delegates unhappy with the Virginia Plan
- September 1787
- Hamilton proposed convention
- Free African Society
- formed in Pennsylvania in 1787
- states approved the Articles of Confederation
- March 1, 1781
- Under AOC, Confederation Congress could...
- conduct foreign affairs, maintain armed forces, borrow money, & issue currency
- Gouverneur Morris
- wrote the final draft of the Constitution
- Ordinance of 1784
- divided W Territory into self-governing districts
- Great Compromise
- deals with representation; suggested by Roger Sherman
- Edmund Randolph
- proposed the Virginia Plan
- 1 vote
- each state had this in Confederation Congress
- Constitution signed
- September 17, 1787
- Delegates had to work out...
- how members of Congress were to be elected, how state representations would be determined, whether or not to count slaves as a part of the population, whether or not to ban slavery
- bicameral
- most states had this type of legislature
- 1780 Pennsylvania law
- freeing of slaves
- state Constitutions
- limited the power of the governor
- Elbridge Gerry, Edmund Randolph, and George Mason
- refused to sign the Constitution without a Bill of Rights
- Under AOC, Confederation Congress couldn't...
- regulate trade, force citizens to join the army, impose taxes
- James Madison and Alexander Hamilton
- wanted a strong central govt.
- Father of the Constitution
- James Madison
- Rules of the Constitutional Convention...
- each state 1 vote, majority vote, 7/13 states required for meeting, met behind closed doors
- Northwest Territory
- 3-5 smaller territories, population reach 60,000 could apply for statehood, new state equal to original states, had Bill of Rights, no slavery
- Robert Morris
- head of Department of Finances; proposed 5% import tax
- Ordinance of 1785
- divided districts into smaller sections (1 township=36 sections)