A Time for Compromise Should employees demand that companies pay them well even when their product is struggling?

Famer Trouble New USA went through a depression, economy slowed and unemployment increased, Plantations damaged and Rice price dropped, trade cut with Eng., paying off debts from war caused currency shortages Could not sell goods, could not pay states back money borrowed from Revolution, states seized farmers land for not paying their debts, threw them in Jail In MA famer tension grew viewed new gov’t as a new tyranny, wanted new paper money and relieve debtors 1786 farmers led by ex-Patriot Captn Daniel Shays, forced courts to close so they could not take farmers land, 1787 shay led 1,000 men to Fed arsenal at Springfield, MA, State militia sent by Washington fired over their heads, fired again killing 4, fear of violence and no gov’t control Thomas Jefferson wrote a little rebellion now and then is a good thing

Slavery Between 1776 & states, except SC and GA outlawed or taxed importing slaves Slavery was legal in all Northern states, 1774 Quakers in PA organized 1 st antislavery society Between 1783 and 1804 CT,RI, NY and NJ passed laws to gradually end slavery, still discrimination, not allowed to be in public, no right to vote, separate schools, churches and societies South of PA clung to slavery, Plantation system built on slavery, some slave holders began freeing slaves

Constitutional Convention Revolution had created 13 states but not a nation, few were satisfied with state control some saw national gov’t as the answer, demanded reform to Articles of Confederation James Madison and Alexander Hamilton proposed calling a convention in Philadelphia to discuss trade Washington not enthusiastic about changing Articles, Shay’s rebellion and him sending in the army to stop made him change his mind Constitutional Convention began 5/1787 and through hottest summer on record Delegates were planters, merchants, lawyers, doctors, generals, governors and a college president, 3 under 30, Franklin over 80, well educated, 1 in 1,000 went to college yet 26 of 55 had college degrees No Native American, African Americans or Women James wilson was the reader and Gouverneur Morris wrote the constitution James Madison came with Edmund Randolph bringing a plan for a new gov’t, Madison called the Father of Constitution