Unit VI. & VII.

The Constitution & New Government

A New State & Nation

Objectives

• Describe two basic conditions of SC after the war was over

• Describe the types of early US Governments

• Describe at least two weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

• Compare and Contrast the differences between the Virginia and New Jersey Plans

SC After the War

• The war disrupted SC’s economy

• Fields were damaged

• Rice & Indigo weren’t profitable

• Planters had little money & had to borrow large amounts of money to survive

• ? Of what to do with Loyalists

SC’s Constitution

• 1st- 1776 dealt with Brits, slavery, Indians

• 2nd- 1778-1790 – now called the president - governor– Representation was shared more

equally btwn up & low country– Anglican church disestablished– Rights to a free press

Articles of Confederation

• Written in 1776, but not ratified until 1781

• Established a weak central government

• No president nor court system

• Provided a unicameral (one house) legislature-each state had one vote

• Congress had no power to tax, coin money, nor regulate trade

Constitutional ConventionPhiladelphia, PA

• May 1787 SC sent four delegates-Pierce Butler, Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and John Rutledge

• All helped write the U.S. Constitution

Virginia Plan • Created 3 branches of government• 1-Legislative• 2-Executive• 3-Judicial• James Madison wrote this plan (from VA)• Had a bicameral (two house) legislature• Representatives were based on

population-good for large states• Small states like New Jersey would have

less votes in Congress

New Jersey Plan

• Proposed each state had the same number of representatives

• Not based on population nor property

• SC favored representation by population and property value (Virginia Plan)

The “Great Compromise”

• Roger Sherman (Conn.) proposed

• Representation in the lower house of Congress based on population

(House of Representatives)

• Representation in the upper house of Congress would be equal

(Senate)

Three-Fifths Compromise

• SC wanted slaves counted as Pop.

• States w/o slaves did not

• Convention agreed to 3/5s Comp.– Every 5 slaves counted as 3 people– SC did not agree but approved it

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