Chapter 8

ReviewDiscontent in the New Nation

What powers did the new government

have?

Declare war coin moneyestablish post offices send or recall ambassadors

What important

powers did the government not have ?

Impose taxes regulate trade between states national court system

What three basic principles did

the A of C establish?

System to organize western landsWay for new states to enter the Union Prohibited slavery north of the Ohio River

a federal law that organized the lands of theNorthwest Territory into

townships

Land Ordinance of 1785

a federal law that established how new states

would come into the Union; also prohibited slavery north of the Ohio

River

Northwest Ordinance of

1787

The chairman of the convention to develop the

U.S. Constitution was

George Washingt

on

Explain the Virginia Plan –

Proposed by

Edmund Randolph

of Virginia,

Large State Plan Bicameral Legislature Lower house members elected by qualified voters

membership Based on

free population,

state legislatures would select upper house

members

Explain the New Jersey Plan –

New Jersey

Small state plan, congress would be unicameral, each state would get

one vote

Explain the Great

Compromise

Upper house (senate) would

have two elected members,

membership in the lower house would

be based on population (house of

representatives )

slaves would be counted as

three-fifths of a person

How would slaves be

counted as population?

Three-fifths

representatives from western

Virginia

Philip Doddridg, Alexander Campbell,

Lewis Summers

Phillip Doddridge

Alexander Campbell

the main issues of the Convention of 1830

Suffrage, representation

geographic differences in eastern and

western Virginia

East-flat West-

hilly

Economic differences

East - plantationWest – small farm farm, industry

Religious differences

East - EpiscopalWest - many

Representative differences

East - unequal, count slavesWest - equal

Led a slave revolt

Nat Turner

Wrote a pamphlet against slavery

Henry Ruffner

people who wanted to

end slavery

abolitionist

What did pro-slavery forces use to defend their position?

Bible

What religion supported slavery?

Episcopal

What arguments did those who supported slavery

use?• The founding fathers had not

rejected slavery when writing the Constitution.

• Slavery was mentioned in the Bible• If slavery had been profitable in

the West it would have been accepted

What arguments did those who opposed slavery use?

• Slavery was against the Declaration of Independence.

• Slavery was against the teachings of the Bible

What church split over the slavery issue?

Methodist

Explain the results of the Reform Convention of

1850

1.Representation – slaves would

no longer be counted

2.Voting regulations – property ownership

abolished,white males, 21

3.Capitation tax- tax on every voter

to go to education

As a result of the Convention of 1850,

jurors would

1. be paid

2. be registered voters

3. not be courthouse loungers

What did the growth and

prosperity of the west depend on?

Internal improvements, closer connections with the industrial North

two house legislature

Bicameral

sent by one country as a

representative to another

Ambassador

a way to settle disagreements

Compromise

framework of a

government

constitution

More than half

majority

Organized lands of the Northwest

Territory into townships

Land Ordinance

of 1785

roads,bridges, and other

transportation needs

Internal improvements

the process of freeing the slaves

emancipation

a citizen chosen to serve on a

jury

juror

approval

ratification

the vote by citizens in an election

popular vote

Established how new states

could come into the Union

Northwest Ordinance

of 1787

Small state plan

New Jersey Plan

Large state plan

Virginia Plan

to redraw the

boundaries

reapportion

a 6-mile square block

of land

township

tax on goods brought into a

state from another state or

country

tariff

an exaggerated loyalty to the

interest of one’s own area

sectionalism

the right to vote

suffrage

The second constitution

The United States

Constitution

Be able to draw and

label a township