Chapter 8 Review Discontent in the New Nation
What powers did the new government have?
Declare war coin money establish post offices send or recall ambassadors
What important powers did the government not have ?
Impose taxes regulate trade between states national court system
What three basic principles did the A of C establish?
System to organize western lands Way for new states to enter the Union Prohibited slavery north of the Ohio River
a federal law that organized the lands of the Northwest Territory into townships Land Ordinance of 1785
a federal law that established how new states would come into the Union; also prohibited slavery north of the Ohio River Northwest Ordinance of 1787
The chairman of the convention to develop the U.S. Constitution was George Washington
Explain the Virginia Plan –
Proposed by Edmund Randolph of Virginia,
Large State Plan Bicameral Legislature Lower house members elected by qualified voters
membership Based on free population,
state legislatures would select upper house members
Explain the New Jersey Plan – New Jersey
Small state plan, congress would be unicameral, each state would get one vote
Explain the Great Compromise
Upper house (senate) would have two elected members,
membership in the lower house would be based on population (house of representatives )
slaves would be counted as three-fifths of a person
How would slaves be counted as population?
Three-fifths
representatives from western Virginia
Philip Doddridg, Alexander Campbell, Lewis Summers Phillip Doddridge Alexander Campbell
the main issues of the Convention of 1830
Suffrage, representation
geographic differences in eastern and western Virginia
East-flat West- hilly
Economic differences
East - plantation West – small farm farm, industry
Religious differences
East - Episcopal West - many
Representative differences
East - unequal, count slaves West - equal
Led a slave revolt
Nat Turner
Wrote a pamphlet against slavery
Henry Ruffner
people who wanted to end slavery
abolitionist
What did pro- slavery forces use to defend their position?
Bible
What religion supported slavery?
Episcopal
What arguments did those who supported slavery use? The founding fathers had not rejected slavery when writing the Constitution. Slavery was mentioned in the Bible If slavery had been profitable in the West it would have been accepted
What arguments did those who opposed slavery use? Slavery was against the Declaration of Independence. Slavery was against the teachings of the Bible
What church split over the slavery issue?
Methodist
Explain the results of the Reform Convention of 1850
1.Representation – slaves would no longer be counted
2.Voting regulations – property ownership abolished,white males, 21
3.Capitation tax- tax on every voter to go to education
As a result of the Convention of 1850, jurors would 1.be paid 2.be registered voters 3.not be courthouse loungers
What did the growth and prosperity of the west depend on?
Internal improvements, closer connections with the industrial North
two house legislature
Bicameral
sent by one country as a representative to another
Ambassador
a way to settle disagreements
Compromise
framework of a government
constitution
More than half
majority
Organized lands of the Northwest Territory into townships
Land Ordinance of 1785
roads,bridges, and other transportation needs
Internal improvements
the process of freeing the slaves
emancipation
a citizen chosen to serve on a jury
juror
approval
ratification
the vote by citizens in an election
popular vote
Established how new states could come into the Union
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Small state plan
New Jersey Plan
Large state plan
Virginia Plan
to redraw the boundaries
reapportion
a 6-mile square block of land
township
tax on goods brought into a state from another state or country
tariff
an exaggerated loyalty to the interest of one’s own area
sectionalism
the right to vote
suffrage
The second constitution
The United States Constitution
Be able to draw and label a township