Chapter 6

Question 0

Delineate the types and extent of the social and political changes brought by the revolution

Answer 0

• Reevaluate accepted social hierarchies and consider role of equality
• abolished remnant of aristocratic privilege
• moved toward separating church and state

Question 1

Describe the conflict among American republicans of the 1780s over the relative importance of liberty as opposed to order

Answer 1

• Expected revolution to bring greater liberty

- some feared liberty would bring democratic excess

Question 2

Describe the post revolutionary position on slavery in both the north and the south

Answer 2

• Northerners abolished institutions but did not see freemen as equal
• economic incentives of slave ownership in the south proved to powerful

Question 3

Specify the post revolutionary changes in the expectation rights and roles of American women

Answer 3

• Women taught republican values to their children

- had to get more educated but still considered exclusively as homemakers

Question 4

Describe the major sources and principles of the earliest American state constitutions

Answer 4

• Often provisional and sometimes experimental
• revealed social and regional differences
• emphasize fundamental freedoms

Question 5

Identify the major problems of western settlement and evaluate the response

Answer 5

• Ownership
• older states claimed them under royal charters
• others felt should be shared by all

Question 6

Explain how republican ideology contributed to the ills confronting the country in the 1780s and how Madison proposed to deal with these problems

Answer 6

• Feared liberty had been taken to far
• Madison argued that a large republic could prosper as a variety of interests would develop, check on one another, and leave gov. in capable hands

Question 7

Trace the development of movement of new constitution from Annapolis convention through shay’s rebellion to the Philadelphia convention

Answer 7

-Fear from shay’s rebellion translated to the constitutional convention

Question 8

Identify the major differences between Virginia and the New Jersey plan, then describe compromise

Answer 8

• Virginia plan was central gov. consisting of supreme legislature, executive and judiciary
• compromised on representation and slave population

Question 9

Identify major issues separating federal it’s and anti-federalists. Describe and evaluate each side and compromise

Answer 9

• Federalists were more organized, well financed, and more capably led
• Anti-federalist views had wide popular view

Question 10

Trace ratification process from the organization of opposing sides to June 1788

Answer 10

• Federalists eventually won struggle for ratification

- Anti-federalist argued that their was a lack of guarantees for individual rights and federalists made bill of rights