Unit 3 – Terms and Concepts
Chapter 6
Irish/BHS
Fall, 2013
24. Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Chapter 6 – The Republican Experiment
*Be able to answer the following questions and/or fully
explain the significance of the terms and concepts.
What were the limits of equality in the “republican” society
of the new United States?
1. republicanism (lower case “r” – It’s our form of
government. An ideal. Not to be confused with the
political party. Know its characteristics! What does it
mean to live in a republic? How do we preserve it?
2. civic virtue
3. patriot elites – Thomas Jefferson, James Madison,
Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, etc. (i.e. The Founding
Fathers)
During the 1780s, why were Americans so sensitive to the
dangers of “aristocratic display”?
4. Society of Cincinnati
5. Efforts to make the United States more egalitarian?
6. Effects of western migration?
7. Advancing the idea of freedom of religion (Thomas
Jefferson and the disestablishment of the Anglican
Church in Virginia) – Why is this significant?
8. The institution of slavery and its contradiction to
republican ideals?
9. Abolition in the northern states
10. African Methodist Episcopal Church
11. Why didn’t southern states abolish slavery in the early
years of the republic?
12. Describe the changing status of women as a result of the
American Revolution and the ideals of republicanism.
13. Abigail Adams, “I desire you remember the Ladies, and
be more favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not
put such unlimited power into the hands of the
Husbands.”
14. republican motherhood (pg. 135)
Following independence, why did the states insist on
drafting written constitutions?
15. Natural rights
16. State constitutions
17. Limits to government power (especially the state
governors).
18. Why did the new state constitutions give most authority
to the legislature?
19. Power to the People – Advantages and Disadvantages?
Why did many Americans regard the Articles of
Confederation as inadequate?
20. Articles of Confederation – Strengths, Weaknesses, and
Achievements?
21. Describe the conflict over the western lands. What was
the main issue? What was the solution?
22. Northwest Territory
23. Land Ordinance of 1785
What did the nationalists call for and how did they aim to
achieve their initiatives?
25. Economic problems in the years immediately following
the American Revolution?
26. nationalists – advocated a strong central government
(Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Robert Morris, etc)
27. Newburgh Conspiracy, 1783
Why did Constitutional delegates compromise on
representation and slavery?
28. Finding a balance between two extremes – 1) The
concentration of power in the hands of unscrupulous
rulers and 2) an excess of democracy, by a failure of the
majority to preserve the property rights of the minority,
by an unrestrained individualism that promoted anarchy
rather than good order. How did the Founding Fathers go
about striking this balance?
29. Baron de Montesquieu
30. James Madison (BRILLIANT!)
31. Madison’s The Federalist No. 10 (pg. 144)
32. Annapolis Convention (1786)
33. Shays’s Rebellion
34. Philadelphia Convention (Constitutional Convention)
35. Virginia Plan
36. New Jersey Plan
37. The Great Compromise (aka the Connecticut
Compromise)
38. Three-Fifths Rule (Three-Fifths Compromise)
39. Compromise of 1808 (Slave Trade Compromise)
40. Fugitive Slave Clause
41. Electoral College
42. Three Branches (Executive, Legislative, Judicial) –
separation of powers/checks and balances
43. federalism
44. ratification and the ratifying conventions
What issues separated Federalists from Antifederalists
during the debates over ratification?
45. Federalists
46. Antifederalists
47. The Federalist
48. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay
49. “natural aristocrats”
50. Bill of Rights