Warm Up 12/3
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Why did Shays Rebellion occur?
• What did it prove to many
people?
• What did Alexander Hamilton
and James Madison call for?
1. How did many Americans feel about
the Articles of Confederation?
• They were too
weak to handle
the problems
facing the Gov’t.
2. What did America enter following
the Revolutionary War?
• They went
through a
depression, a
period when
economic activity
slowed and
unemployment
increased.
3. What did the British close to
American Merchants?
• The profitable
West Indies in the
Caribbean.
4. Why were farmers being
imprisoned?
• They could not
pay the taxes that
states were
asking them to
pay.
5. What did a farmer named Daniel
Shay lead?
• Farmers were
angry at the new
Gov’t.
• Shay led them to a
federal arsenal in
Springfield Mass.
• The state Militia
killed 4 of them
stopping the
Rebellion.
6. What were many Americans
worried about?
• That the new
Gov’t could not
control unrest
and prevent
violence.
7. What did 11 states do at this time
period?
• Outlawed or
heavily taxed the
importation of
enslaved people.
• All except South
Carolina and
Georgia.
8. What did a group of Quakers
organize?
• The first
American
antislavery group.
• PA eventually
passed laws
freeing its slaves.
9. Why did many states south of
Pennsylvania hold onto their slaves?
• Their plantation
economy
depended on
them.
• Some did begin
to free slaves
though.
10. Define Manumission• The freeing of
individual
enslaved
persons.
11. What would it take to eventually
end slavery in this country?
• Years of debate.
• Bloodshed
• And the bloodiest
war in this
country has ever
known.
12. Did all leaders want a strong
national Gov’t?
• Absolutely not!
• Some state
leaders liked
having their own
independent
state
governments.
13. What two Americans demanded a
change to the Articles of
Confederation?
• James Madison
and Alexander
Hamilton.
14. Why did George Washington
decide to attend this new convention?
• He was worried
about the Union
because of Shays
Rebellion.
Warm Up 1/9
10.What was the Virginia Plan?
Who Supported it?
11. What was the New Jersey
Plan? Who Supported it?
12. What was the Great
Compromise? EXPLAIN IT!
15. Where and When and WhoConstitutional Convention
• Philadelphia
• May 1787
• 55 delegates.
16. Who is considered the “Father of
Constitution”?
• James Madison
• He was the
author of the
basic plan of
Gov’t that
convention
adopted.
17. How many votes did each state
get at the convention?
• 1 vote for each
state.
• Meetings could
only take place if
7 of the 13 states
were present.
18. Was the convention public?
• NO!
• They kept the
sessions secret
that way they
could talk Freely.
19. What did the Virginia plan call for?
• 1. A two house
legislature.
• 2. A Chief
Executive.
• 3. A Court
System.
20. How would representatives be
determined in each house?
• The number of
Representatives
in both houses
would be
proportional,
corresponding in
size to the
population of
each state.
21. Which states immediately objected
to this? Why?
• The Small States!
• They wanted all
states to be
represented
equally.
22. What did William Patterson of New
Jersey feel the convention should do?
• Just revise the
Articles of
Confederation.
• No need to
change
everything.
23. What was contained in the New
Jersey Plan?
• Kept the
Confederation’s
one-house
legislature, one
vote for each state.
• Congress could set
taxes and regulate
trade.
• Would have a weak
executive branch
with more than one
person.
24. Define Compromise• An agreement
between two or
more sides in
which each side
gives up some of
what it wants.
25. What did Roger Sherman propose
in the Great Compromise?
• Two house
legislature.
• Upper HouseSenate, each state
gets two Reps.
• Lower HouseHouse of
Representativeseach state gets
Reps based on
population.
26. What was the 3/5’s Compromise?
• Each enslaved
person would
count as 3/5’s of
a person for both
taxation and
representation.
27. What timeline did the Congress
set for dealing with Slavery?
• The North could
not interfere with
slavery in the
South until 1808.
28. What did George Mason argue the
Constitution needed?
• A Bill of Rights to
protect people’s
rights.
• Mason refused to
sign the
Constitution
because there
was no Bill of
Rights.
29. When was the Constitution
signed?
• September 17,
1787.
• Still needed to be
approved by 9 of
the 13 states.