1. 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

2. The Articles of Confederation
Congress, Confederation, and the Problem of Western Lands
Running the New Government

3. The Sovereign States The State Constitutions Who Are “the People”?
Equality and Slavery
Legal Changes to Slavery, 1777–1804

4. 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

5. The United States Constitution
From Annapolis to Philadelphia
The Virginia and New Jersey Plans
Democracy versus Republicanism

6. Ratification of the Constitution
The Federalists
The Antifederalists
The Big Holdouts: Virginia and New York

7. 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)