#1: what changes in american society did...
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#1: What changes in American society did the revolutionary American ideas bring about in the years immediately following the revolution?
• Evolution rather than Revolution?
• Pursuit of Equality: political, economic, and religious
• Abolition of Slavery
• Republican Motherhood *
#2: What were the strengths / weaknesses of the A of C? Were the social problems of the 1780’s really due to the national government’s failings, or the aftermath of the AR?
• Constitution Making in the States
• Relocation of State Capitals
• Economic Democracy proceeds Political Democracy
• Navigation Laws | Enterprising Yankees
• Unhealthy Atmosphere *
#2: What were the strengths / weaknesses of the A of C? Were the social problems of the 1780’s really due to the national government’s failings, or the aftermath of the AR?, cont.
• Articles of Confederation | Western Territories
• No Power to Regulate Interstate Commerce
• No Power to Enforce Tax Collection
• Votes and Amendments *
#2: What were the strengths / weaknesses of the A of C? Were the social problems of the 1780’s really due to the national government’s failings, or the aftermath of the AR?, cont.
• Land Ordinance of 1785
• Northwest Ordinance of 1787
• Slavery in the NW Territory
• British Problems: no commercial treaty, shut off West Indies trade from US, continued fur trading with Indians on northern frontier *
#2: What were the strengths / weaknesses of the A of C? Were the social problems of the 1780’s really due to the national government’s failings, or the aftermath of the AR?, cont.
• Spanish Problems: closed the Mississippi and territorial claims
• Pirates of the North African States
• Crisis in 1786: British flooding of the market & Shays’s Rebellion *
#3: What really motivated the leaders who called the Constitutional Convention and worked out the essential compromises?
• Control of Commerce
• Annapolis Convention
• Philadelphia Convention
• A Convention of Demigods
• Patriots in Philadelphia *
#3: What really motivated the leaders who called the Constitutional Convention and worked out the essential compromises?, cont.
• Hammering Out a Bundle of Compromises
• Safeguards for the Constitution
• Conservative or Liberal Document? *
#4: Who were the Federalist and the Antifederalist, what were the issues that divided them, and why did the Federalist win?
• Characteristics of the Federalists . . .
• Characteristics of the Antifederalists . . .
• Criticisms of the Constitution
• Great Debate in the States
• The Four Laggard States *
#5: Should the Constitution be seen as a conservative reaction to the Revolution, an enshrinement of revolutionary principles, or both? What was most truly original about the Constitution? *