Darty AMH 2010
Chapter Seven "Building A Republic" Exam Terms


People to Know: James Madison, Joh Dickinson, Robert Morris, John Adams, George Mason, Paul Cuffe, John Cuffe, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, John Jay, Henry Knox, Benjamin Franklin, Dolley Payne Todd Madison, Quok Walker, Daniel Shays, James Bowdoin
Western Expansion: national domain, cession of western lands, Northwest Territory, Southwest Territory, Southern Tribes--Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Land Ordinance of 1784, Land Ordinance of 1785, Northwest Ordinance of 1787, land speculation, freeholders or yeoman farmers
Experiments in Government: state constitutions; Articles of Confederation, provisions/powers, strengths and weaknesses, delagate characteristics at Articles Convention; Constitutional Convention (Philadelphia, PA), Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, Great Compromise--know its components, 3/5 Compromise or 3/5 Clause, balance of powers in three Branches: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial, bicameral legislature: Senate and House of Representatives, electoral college, popular vote, proportional representation---United States Constitution; Ratification of the US Constitution, The Federalist Papers: James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay; James Madison, Federalist #10 (1787)
separation of church and state, Touro Synagogue, a Christian republic?
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1782)
federal, Federalists, Antifederalists
Revolutionary Ideology: equality, representation, enslavement, gradual emancipation, manumission, republicanism, virtuous citzenry, bill of rights concept, citizenship, democracy, natural rights, republic, petitions, individual liberty, junto
Mercy Otis Warren, Observations on the New Constitution (1788)
Benjamin Rush, "Thoughts upon the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic"
Shays Rebellion, Daniel Shays, Shaysites, James Bowdoin, Disqualifying Act (1787)
impost (import tax), Bank of North America


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