Chapter 9 Outline Apush
Tiffany Baker
October 22, 2011
Period 0
Chapter 9 Outline
The Confederation and the Constitution
I. The Pursuit of Equality A. Fight of separation of church and state with the Congregational Church, and the Anglican Church. 1. The Anglican Church struggled for divorce between religion and government. 2. Thomas Jefferson and his co-reformers won a complete victory with the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. B. The egalitarian sentiments challenged the institution of slavery. 1. Several northern states either abolished slavery outright or provided for the gradual emancipation of blacks. 2. No states south of Pennsylvania abolished slavery. 3. In North and South, the law of discriminated harshly against freed blacks and slaves alike. 4. Emancipated African Americans could be barred from purchasing property, holding certain jobs, and educating their children. They can’t have interracial marriage. C. Women’s Role 1. Some women served in the military, and could vote. 2. Most of the women in the Revolutionary era still did traditional women’s work. 3. Education for women expanded, in the expectation that educated wifes, and mothers could better cultivate the virtues demanded by the Republic in the husbands, daughters, and sons. II. Constitution Making in the States A. Continental Congress wanted the colonies to draft new constitutions 1. The sovereignty of these new states, according to the theory of republicanism, would rest on the authority of the people. B. Constitutions 1. The documents Americans drafted were contracts that defined the powers of government, as did the old charters. 2. As written documents the state constitutions were intended to represent a fundamental law, superior
October 22, 2011
Period 0
Chapter 9 Outline
The Confederation and the Constitution
I. The Pursuit of Equality A. Fight of separation of church and state with the Congregational Church, and the Anglican Church. 1. The Anglican Church struggled for divorce between religion and government. 2. Thomas Jefferson and his co-reformers won a complete victory with the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. B. The egalitarian sentiments challenged the institution of slavery. 1. Several northern states either abolished slavery outright or provided for the gradual emancipation of blacks. 2. No states south of Pennsylvania abolished slavery. 3. In North and South, the law of discriminated harshly against freed blacks and slaves alike. 4. Emancipated African Americans could be barred from purchasing property, holding certain jobs, and educating their children. They can’t have interracial marriage. C. Women’s Role 1. Some women served in the military, and could vote. 2. Most of the women in the Revolutionary era still did traditional women’s work. 3. Education for women expanded, in the expectation that educated wifes, and mothers could better cultivate the virtues demanded by the Republic in the husbands, daughters, and sons. II. Constitution Making in the States A. Continental Congress wanted the colonies to draft new constitutions 1. The sovereignty of these new states, according to the theory of republicanism, would rest on the authority of the people. B. Constitutions 1. The documents Americans drafted were contracts that defined the powers of government, as did the old charters. 2. As written documents the state constitutions were intended to represent a fundamental law, superior