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| What was the new nation struggling with? |
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| Finding the proper balance between public morality and private freedom. They believe that a republic that compromised its virtue could not preserve liberty and independence. |
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| What did revolutionary leaders believe was needed? |
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| A strong central government to protect rights and property. |
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| An uncompromising commitment to maintain liberty and equality, while guarding against the corruption of power and self-interest. |
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| What were the social and political reforms implemented within the nation? |
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Americans denounced any traces of aristocratic presences, because artificial statues was contrary to republican beliefs. The appearance of equality was just as important as its achievement.
The relation between church and state changed. Thomas Jefferson insisted that rulers had no right to interfere with the free expression of religious beliefs and advocated the disestablishment of the Anglican church. |
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| Why were anti-slavery societies so prominent in the North? |
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| Northern states had no economic justification for slavery since white laborers competed with slaves for jobs. This did NOT mean that white people accepted blacks as equals, they faced a systematic discrimination. |
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| How did the revolutionary experience change the views on families? |
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| The former heavily patriarchal societies consisted of a father being able to implement any type of punishment or rules within the household without fear of repercussions. John Locke stated that children learned from experience and condemn tyranny in the home. |
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| How did women justify their assertiveness? |
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| The survival of republics was due to the special responsibility of women as mothers to nurture the right values in their children and as wives to instruct their husbands in proper behavior. |
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| The Second Continental Congress encouraged states to adopt constitutions, what did this reveal? |
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| How Americans in different regions are reacting to different social pressure, this provided insights for the framers on the strengths and weaknesses of government based on the will of the people. |
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| What were the Articles of Confederation? |
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| it guarded the sovereignty of the states and placed many constraints on federal authority. There was one legislative body, with no independent executive. Could not tax and had to ask states for contributions and all 13 states had to assent to make amends. |
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| How did the US deal with Western expansion? |
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Thomas Jefferson drafted a version of the Ordinance of 1787, provided new structure for government of the NW territories, guaranteed settlers the right to trial by jury, freedom of religion, due process of law, and outlawed slavery.
5000 voters --> ability to elect an assembly
60000 --> petition for statehood |
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| What were states plagued with? |
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| An excess of democracy. There was a failure of the majority to preserve the minority, by an unrestrained individualism. States were not concerned with the fiscal health of the national government. |
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| Madison countered Montesquie's claim by stating what? |
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| That it was not a large territory, but small states that should be feared in terrorizing the propertied minority. |
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| What was Shay's Rebellion? |
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| Impoverished farmers who complained of high taxes, interest rates, and insensitive state government. Took up arms and Congress did not have funds to support an army --> symbolizes the breakdown of law and order. |
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| What were some established rules in the Constitutional convention? |
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| Nothing spoken during the Convention was to be printed or communicated without permission. State majority rule. |
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| What did the opponents of the Constitution demand to be added to the Constitution? |
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| Greater protection of individual rights --> James Madison drafted a set of amendments. |
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