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The Making of a Nation - Creating the Constitution
Northwest Territory:
Articles
raise money for America
Congress......
* declare war
* negotiate peace
* regulate relations to the Indians
* no ability to tax (donations only)
* 9 states had to make laws
* 13 states had to agree to change the Articles
sold land to farmers and land speculators
Land Ordinance of 1785
called for the division of land
Articles of Confederation
1777
grid lines running north or south and east or west
* an alliance of independence states
John Dickinson
Leader of Continental Congress
* divided into townships
* six square miles each
* divided into 36 one square
mile sections
* $1 per acre
* favored the wealthy
No President
No Judicial Branch
States held the power.
National Legislature with all states having one vote
State Governments - Testing grounds for a national government
After the revolution, the Congress asked each state to form a government.
Religious Freedom
Thomas Paine: trusted in the people's ability to govern.
Republics
The Making of a Nation - Creating the Constitution
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Thomas Jefferson
Unicameral Legislature: power to be held by the legislative branch and not the governor.
Most states went traditional:
* bicameral legislature
* House made up common
people
* Senate comprised of the
elite
Democracy in the Making
Many of the states wanted to make sure the government was in the hands of the people so......
* enlarged legislatures making more districts
* voters elected the governors
Suffrage:
* based on land ownership
* PA - all men 21 or older who paid taxes
"confound and destroy all distinctions, and prostrate all ranks to the common level." John Adams