Exam 3: Politics of the American Founding

What were the two major plans presented at the Philadelphia Convention,and what were the major provisions of each? How were the plans reconciled? Who do you think the winners and the losers were at the Constitutional Convention? Why do you think the winners were winners and the losers were losers?

Which of the following best describes the new citizenship established by the original U.S.Constitution?

The difference between the Native American view of property and the European view of property was that ______.

Why did the Articles of Confederation ultimately fail?

James Madison believed that factions were particularly dangerous to a republic because they would likely pit the haves and the have-nots against each other.

Name two reasons why early colonists left England.

Shays's Rebellion was a grassroots uprising during the confederation period by armed Massachusetts farmers protesting foreclosures.

During the period of time when the United States was governed by the Articles of Confederation,elites came to fear tyranny by the ______.

The central goal of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention was to ______ the power of the national government.

The group that believed in strong national power and supported the new constitution was the ______.