Review Questions Chapter 6

1. During the course of the war where does the fighting take place? Why did the war shift from New England to New York in 1776? What does the battle of Saratoga lead to? Do you think the battle of Saratoga is a major turning point in the war?

2. How does the government under the Articles of Confederation work? Why did ratification of the government take so long?

3. Describe the major British and American strategies in the American Revolution. Why do the Americans win? What happens at Yorktown to end the war?

4. What happens to the loyalist during and after the war?

5. How is the Treaty of Paris worked out? What does it provide?

6. What kind of social revolution takes place after the war? How are slaves, Native American (like the Iroquois), woman and churches affected by the revolution.

Pages 209-217

1. 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?

2. Describe the economic affects of the war on commerce, agriculture, and manufacturing.

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 dept to the government under the Articles of Confederation?

4. What was Shays Rebellion about? On page 236 how do the Federalists view Shays Rebellion?

5. 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?

6. Federalists like Washington, Hamilton and Jay believe who should have political power?

What important men are not at the Convention and why?

7. 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?