Benchmark Review

Excerpt from: Objections to the Constitution “There is no declaration of rights; and , the laws of the general government being paramount to the laws and constitutions of the several states, the declaration of rights in the separate states are no security. Nor are the people secured even in the enjoyment of the benefit of the common law, which stands here upon no foundation than its having been adopted by the respective acts forming the constitutions of the several states…” “…This government will commence in a moderate aristocracy: it is at present impossible to forsee whether it will, in its operation, produce a monarchy or a corrupt oppressive aristocracy; it will most probably vibrate some years between the two, and then terminate in the one or the other.”

Question Why did George Mason object to the ratification of the US Constitution?

Answer Mason believed that the Constitution did not specifically protect the rights of the people.

Question What was George Mason’s goal in writing his objections to the ratification of the US Constitution?

Answer To prevent the government from becoming a monarchy or an aristocracy that is doomed to fail.

Question What does the phrase “the laws of the general government being paramount to the laws and constitutions of the several states” mean?

Answer That the laws of the federal government will be considered superior to those of the states.

Question Why did Federalists feel that a Bill of Rights was not necessary in the US Constitution?

Question Why did Federalists feel that a Bill of Rights was not necessary in the US Constitution?

Answer Federalists thought that rights were protected by states.

Question Why did Anti Federalists oppose a new Constitution?

Answer Anti Federalists favored strong state governments rather than a strong central government.

Question What did Federalists and Anti-Federalists agree upon?

Answer People should have a voice in government.

Question Which physical feature probably has the greatest positive effect on transportation in colonial North Carolina?

Answer Rivers

Question Why would the people of North Carolina relocate their capital from New Bern to Raleigh?

Answer Raleigh was centrally located between western and eastern NC

Question What was the major industry in the coastal plain?

Answer Large scale agriculture

Question What did the US state to Europe in the Monroe Doctrine?

Answer Colonization in the western hemisphere would be considered a sign of aggression?

Question Why was the Monroe Doctrine an important policy?

Answer It stated a new policy for European countries creating colonies.

Question What is an example of the enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine?

Answer Removing the Spanish from Cuba in the Spanish-American war.

Question What was the impact of tariffs passed in 1828 and 1832?

Answer SC created an Ordinance of Nullification to void the tariffs.

Question Why would the tariffs impact the South more than the North?

Answer The South relied more on manufactured imports.

Question Why was the South so upset about the passages of the tariffs?

Answer It thought that Congress was favoring the North.

Question Which is the best definition of the word nullify?

Answer Void

Questions What describes the distribution of railroads in 1860?

Answer Most railroads were located in the Northern part of the US.

Question Why were so many railroads built along the coast of the US?

Answer To give farmers and manufacturers access to seaports and trade routes.

Question As the country entered a period of Civil War, how would having more railroads be helpful to one side?

Answer Move troops faster Transport supplies faster Trade will prosper

Question Based on the image, what was the purpose of the Anaconda Plan?

Answer To surround the Southern states and cut off trade.

Question How would farmers in NC be affected by the Anaconda Plan?

Answer The plan would prevent farmers from shipping goods overseas.

Question What was the only major disagreement between the North and the South?

Answer Whether or not new territories should be open to slavery.

Question Why did the south secede from the Union?

Answer People in the Southern States were being denied their rights.

Question Lincoln compares the country to a married couple getting divorced for what purpose?

Answer To show how much more difficult it would be to split and separate a country.

Question Jefferson Davis states, that by leaving the Union, the South “illustrates the American idea that the government rests upon the consent of the governed…” What is he suggesting?

Answer He suggests that it is the right of the people to change the government when they no longer agree on how it is operating.

Question Who is Lincoln referring to when he says “dissatisfied countrymen”?

Answer Citizens in the South

Question What was Jefferson Davis’s major goal?

Answer TO continue to build the south as a new country.