The American Promise: A History of the United States Fourth Edition Roark • Johnson • Cohen • Stage • Hartmann • Lawson The American Promise: A History of the United States Fourth Edition CHAPTER 8 Building a Republic: 1775–1789 Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s
The Articles of Confederation Congress, Confederation, and the Problem of Western Lands Running the New Government
The Sovereign States The State Constitutions Who Are “the People”? Equality and Slavery Legal Changes to Slavery, 1777–1804
The Confederation’s Problems Financial Chaos and Paper Money The Treaty of Fort Stanwix Land Ordinances and the Northwest Territory Shays’s Rebellion, 1786–1787
The United States Constitution From Annapolis to Philadelphia The Virginia and New Jersey Plans Democracy versus Republicanism
Ratification of the Constitution The Federalists The Antifederalists The Big Holdouts: Virginia and New York
Chapter 8 Building a Republic: 1775–1789 Map 8.1 Cession of Western Lands, 1782–1802 (p. 254) Map 8.2 The Northwest Territory and Ordinance of 1785 (p. 266) Map 8.3 Ratification of the Constitution, 1788–1790 (p. 276) A Chair for the New Nation (p. 250) James Madison, by Charles Willson Peale (p. 252) Paul Cuffe’s Silhouette (p. 258) Black Loyalists in Canada: Passport to Freedom (p. 262) Penny note, Bank of North America, 1789 (p. 263) Scale of Depreciation (p. 263) Jefferson’s Map of the Northwest Territory (p. 267)