- The delegates would come to favor a three-part government, with separation of _____
- When Congress drafted the nation's first constitution in 1777, they knew that many Americans felt ___________ of a power national government.
- What other issue divided delegates, especially pitting delegates from northern states against delegates from southern states?
- Most of the problems with the Articles of Confederation stemmed from the fact that the Articles gave so much power to the states, but:
- What event in the summer of 1786 involved armed and angry farmers who occupied a Massachusetts courthouse in protest of trials, land loss, and imprisonment of debtors, and eventually led to a group of about 1200 to seize weapons in rebellion?
- The _______ Plan, proposed by James Madison, called for a strong central government, a ______ legislature, and representation to be based on each state's _________
- How many of the 13 states needed to ratify the Constitution?
- The combination of _________________ caused the young country to fall into an economic depression.
- What was the compromise called that "settled" this issue by allowing southern states to count every 5 enslaved people as 3 people for representation in the House?
- He was referred to as the "Father of the Constitution":
- List 2 famous "founding fathers" who were not at the meeting
- Then a couple years later, the ___________ Ordinance, which set out how a territory can become a state.
- Many Americans supported the Louisiana Territory, citing reasons such as: ________________ ,and security by reducing threat of western invasion, as reasons and motivations for the purchase.
- The ______________ Ordinance of 1785, which divided the new territory in to townships, and saved land for schools
- In 1819, Spain ceded the territory of __________ to the US
- Each state constitution also separated the powers of government in to 3 branches called:
- Do all the states still enforce slavery?
- In 1845, the state of _______ joined the country after gaining independence from Mexico
- What was the name of the special meeting held after the war at Independence Hall in Philadelphia in 1787?
- The 13 new states designed state constitution which were similar in many ways. They all began with a statement of __________.