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Video Worksheet: The New Nation: 1776-1815

Birth of a New Government

_B_1) What was the term given to the radical new ideas of equality and government by the people?

_A_2) After the Revolution, on what did everyone in America agree that government should be based? 

_E_3) Which state developed a two house legislature and an executive branch headed by a governor?

_C_4) Which state developed a single-house legislature where the lower classes of society could argue with rich planters and landowners?

_D_5) Which state gave some free blacks and women the right to vote?

To Be A Republican

_H_6) Which law guaranteed that lands west of the Appalachians could join the American Union as a state?

_G_7) Which element of society found that it had a new role in teaching the children the values of the new republic?

_I_8) Name the first territory to outlaw slavery in 1777?

_F_9) In which American city were the first black churches established?

Shays' Rebellion

_L_10) Who was America's greatest trading partner, lost after America won the Revolutionary War?

_J_11) What two economic factors forced many Massachusetts farmers deep into debt?

_K_12) What was the goal of the band of men led by Daniel Shays in the winter of 1787?

The Constitutional Convention

_M_13) Who was convinced a whole new plan of government was needed and wrote a constitution before coming to the convention?

_P_14) What was the name of the plan given to the proposal for a strong central government that could tax the people and that was centered around a two house legislature with representation based on population?

_N_15) Which plan called for a Congress with a one-state one-vote system, allowing each state to have equal representation?

_O_16) What was the other name given to the Great Compromise, where each house of Congress had its own way of sending delegates, one by population and the other equally?

Am I Not A Man and A Brother?/We The People

_S_17) How many years did the new constitution allow the slave trade to exist after the writing of the constitution?

_Q_18) At what fraction were blacks counted as for both representation and taxation?

_R_19) How many states had to agree or ratify the new federal constitution for it to go into effect?

_V_20) What was the name given to the series of articles written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?

_U_21) Which group argued that the principles of the American revolution were violated by a constitution that created a form of government that was more like a monarchy?

_T_22) Which state ratified the Constitution in a hard fought political battle, winning the final vote by only 3 votes?

The Promise of Freedom/Hercules In the Cradle

_W_23) What is the name given to the first ten amendments, passed and ratified all at once in 1787?

_X_24) What was the 10th amendment designed to protect?

_AA_25) What promise does the government make to the people as the purpose of the Bill of Rights?

_Z_26) What position was held by Alexander Hamilton, who believed the Federal government had the responsibility to take on the states' debt?

_Y_27) What was the name given to the uprising that made up the first challenge to the new federal government's rule?

Liberty, Fraternity, Equality/The Many or the Few?

_BB_28) Which group favored England and feared rule by the Common People?

_DD_29) Which group was led by Thomas Jefferson, supporting the idea that "the government that governs best governs least?"

_CC_30) Name the two laws passed by the Federalists to restrain their political enemies, especially Jefferson's party?

The Revolution of 1800/The Marshall Court

_EE_31) Who won the election of 1800?

_FF_32) Who came to power in France as the French Republic and the French Revolution failed?

_GG_33) Who established judicial review and elevated the Supreme Court to an equal third branch of government?

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