Review Questions Chapter 6
Pages 153-159

1. According to the ideas of republicanism who empowers government?

2. What methods, ideals, and goals characterized the writing of the constitutions in the states? Who could vote? How does Massachusetts go about setting up a state government? How was Pennsylvania different form other states?

3. Describe American sentiment on women's political participation during the post war era.
 

                                                         Review Questions Chapter 7

1. How did the demobilizing the army present the Confederation government some serious problems?

2. What does the Land Ordinance of 1785 do? What does the Northwest Ordinance say about slavery? Why? What happens to the Indians in the Northwest Territory?

3. What does Robert Morris do to deal with the national debt? How big a problem is the debt to the government under the Articles of Confederation?

4. What happen to slavery in the northern states?

5. What was Shays Rebellion about? On page 172 how do the Federalists view Shays Rebellion?

6. Federalists like Washington, Hamilton and Jay believe who should have political power? Describe the government under the Articles of Confederation. Where does this government fail and how does this failure result in the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia?

7. What important men are not at the Convention and why? What were the Virginia and New Jersey Plans? What were their crucial differences? What was the Great Compromise?

8. In the area of sectionalism how did the convention take care of the issue of slavery?

9. To make the Constitution flexible, the framers add the "elastic clause" which enables Congress "to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution...all...powers vested by the Constitution in the government of the United States." Do you think this gives Congress too much power?

10. How did the Constitution become the law of land after the convention in Philadelphia? How does the Bill of Rights become part of the Constitution?
 

11. Some historians, consider the Constitution the work of "counter revolutionaries" and some Anti-Federalist would have agreed the Constitution goes against what the revolution was for.
Do you think the Constitution goes against the ideas of republican liberty?