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Chapter Two “A new nation” 1 What was Europe's reaction to the lack of cohesion that the United States showed after the War of Independence?
The Europeans, specially the British people, felt that the American government wasn’t so important, that they were so weak that it wasn’t worth spending time dealing with them.
In France, the American representative Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter saying that the United States was the least important and less respected of all nations with embassies in Paris.
2 On May 1787 fifty-five men attended a meeting in Philadelphia that became known as the Constitutional Convention were they worked out a new system of government for the United States. They set out a plan for this government in a document called the Constitution of the United States.
Name the three branches of the constitution and their functions.
-The legislative (It takes decisions in any agreement about the making of the laws and the constitution)
-The executive (It would be the president to run the country’s everyday affairs and make sure that people obeyed the laws)
-The judicial branch or law making (It was made up of representatives chosen by the people, they make sure of the ‘ultimate’ meaning of the laws and constitution)
3 In 1791 ten amendments, or additions, were made to the Constitution. Together these ten amendments are called the Bill of Rights. Refer to the reason for this modification and mention at least three of them.
The main reason for the bill of rights it was because the original constitution mentioned nothing about the rights and freedom of individual citizens.
The bill of rights promised: freedom of religion-a free press- the right to carry arms.
4. After 1783 more and more people set off for the new territories between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River that the treaty of Paris had granted to the United Stated States. This brought immediate conflict with the Amerindians already living in this
The Europeans, specially the British people, felt that the American government wasn’t so important, that they were so weak that it wasn’t worth spending time dealing with them.
In France, the American representative Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter saying that the United States was the least important and less respected of all nations with embassies in Paris.
2 On May 1787 fifty-five men attended a meeting in Philadelphia that became known as the Constitutional Convention were they worked out a new system of government for the United States. They set out a plan for this government in a document called the Constitution of the United States.
Name the three branches of the constitution and their functions.
-The legislative (It takes decisions in any agreement about the making of the laws and the constitution)
-The executive (It would be the president to run the country’s everyday affairs and make sure that people obeyed the laws)
-The judicial branch or law making (It was made up of representatives chosen by the people, they make sure of the ‘ultimate’ meaning of the laws and constitution)
3 In 1791 ten amendments, or additions, were made to the Constitution. Together these ten amendments are called the Bill of Rights. Refer to the reason for this modification and mention at least three of them.
The main reason for the bill of rights it was because the original constitution mentioned nothing about the rights and freedom of individual citizens.
The bill of rights promised: freedom of religion-a free press- the right to carry arms.
4. After 1783 more and more people set off for the new territories between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River that the treaty of Paris had granted to the United Stated States. This brought immediate conflict with the Amerindians already living in this