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The Newburgh Conspiracy

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  • Soldiers’ frustration due to no money.
  • The army at Newburgh asked the new government for money.
  • A rift in Congress over the issue of revenue. Officers demanded a quicker response.
  • Washington was worried about the threat of a coup d’etat, but the officers receiving funds averted a coup.
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Shay’s Rebellion

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  • Cause: financial hardship for former soldier/farmers and the Massachusetts legislature refused to provide funds.
  • Daniel Shays led armed farmers and shut down the courts to stop foreclosures in 1786
  • Aim: to overthrow the state government
  • Massachusetts state militia suppressed the revolt
  • Result: The rebellion terrified the elite of the nation and led to the call for a stronger national government to maintain law and order.
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new slave states

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  • kentucky
  • tennesse
  • alabama
  • mississippi
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Joseph Brant

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-organized a confederation of tribes and led a violend resistance against white settlement

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Republican Motherhood

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  • belief that women should have more rights and a better education than they might support husbands and raise sons who would actively participate in the political affairs of society
  • With a special type of education, mothers could influence their husbands and sons to be active citizens.
  • private Academies
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why write the US Constitution

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create a more perfect union

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Annapolis Convention

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  • 5 states

- led to the call for a meeting for another convention at philadelphia in 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation

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Constitutional Convention

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  • All except Rhode Island
  • Those absent: T.J., J. Adams, S. Adams & Patrick Henry
  • February 1787, Congress agreed to call a convention made up of 55 white men who gathered in what was later called Independence Hall
  • propose amendments of the articles of confederation
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Virginia Plan

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  • the first outline of the new constitution
  • New Congress with 2 houses, whose members would be elected based on proportional representation reflecting the population of the states, would replace current Congress.
  • Would represent the people, not necessarily 13 equal states.
  • The Congress would have the power to levy taxes, regulate interstate commerce, and veto state laws.
  • Proposed creating a “national executive” and judiciary, or a set of federal courts.
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New Jersey Plan

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  • proposal for the structure of the US gov
  • William Paterson
  • where both houses of Congress would be elected by states, with equal size delegations for every state
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Great Compromise/Connecticut Plan

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  • agreement during Constitutional Convention
  • a national bicameral legislature in which all states would be equally represented in the Senate and proportionally represented in the House
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Three-fifths clause

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  • provided that if taxes were ever levied on the states according to population, slaves would be counted on a three-fifths basis for determining how much taxes the states would pay
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Ratification process

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-: starting in September of 1787

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Electoral College

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-a body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president.

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Anti- Federalists

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  • opposed the Constitution
  • worried that national government would destroy rights of the sovereign states and freedom of individual
  • Constitution lacked Bill of Rights
  • Richard Henry Lee: worried that new government would be created and dominated by monarchy men, military men, aristocrats, and drones
  • states rights
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Federalists

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  • supporters of the Constitution
  • had specific document/arguments to plan the improvement of the government
  • addressed the fears of the people
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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-legislation passed by Congress under Articles of Confederation that provided for public schools, sale of govt. land, and prohibited slavery in NW territories
religious freedom

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Treaty of Fort Stanwix

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  • 1784; faction of Iroquois and US gov; sought to end violent battles over land in NY, Penn, and Ohio River Valley to W
  • did not hold
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separation of powers

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-(government would always have authority limited by other parts

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proportional representation

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-a way of selecting representatives in Congress based on the total population of a state, as opposed to having each state received equal votes in Congress

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Feudalism

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-a system of government in which power is clearly divided between state governments and the national-or federal-government

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The Federalist papers

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-: James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay – “Federalists”