came up with the land ordnance of North West territory 1784. This ordinance was set to survey the land and sell it to individuals; it also created where towns would be placed. The plans to govern the territory were set by the North West ordinance of 1787. This ordinance set up the laws for the new towns and gave them 3 federal judges and 1 territorial governor. It also said that once a town reached 5‚000 people they could send a delegate to congress and when an area had 60‚000 people they would become
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states not being as highly populated as the northern states feared Congress having the power to regulate trade. They gave in to a compromise that prohibited the federal government from levying export taxes and from interfering with slave trade‚ which the south depended on for their tobacco plantations. On September 12‚ 1787‚ the convention was finished and on September 17‚ 1787‚ thirty-nine delegates signed the document of new laws they had written‚ called the Constitution. The convention was sent home
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confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government‚ which resulted in most of the power residing with the state governments. The need for a stronger Federal government soon became apparent and eventually led to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. The present United States Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation on March 4‚ 1789 (Researchers‚ 2013). Some weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation that ultimately resulted in failure were the fact that each state only had one vote
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The U.S. Constitution The US Constitution is a document that signifies a great deal of importance to America. On September 17‚ 1787 the US Constitution was signed by the delegates of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. This document was used to establish America’s government‚ fundamental laws‚ and basic rights for US citizens. Due to America’s recent win against Great Britain in the Revolutionary War they needed to establish a new constitution. The Articles of Confederation were the
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Part A 2. How did the Enlightenment contribute to the independence movement in the American colonies? The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement emphasizing logic‚ reason‚ and science. This was a very limited movement and only applied to the elite and those that could read and write. The Enlightenment caused a loss of authority of the churches and monarchy which caused people to think for themselves and make rules for themselves and not depend on the church. It also split up the church and made
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each other‚ refused to support a central government‚ made foreign agreements‚ created their own armies‚ taxed one another on trade and created their own money. The articles seemed to create a government unable to deal with the nation’s troubles. By 1787‚ delegates from each state were called to
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states. The Articles of Confederation had served as the first U.S. constitution (Merrill‚ 1959). The states under the confederation were Virginia‚ South Carolina‚ New York‚ Massachusetts‚ Connecticut‚ Georgia‚ Rhode Island‚ New Hampshire‚ New Jersey‚ Pennsylvania‚ North Carolina‚ Delaware and Maryland. In 1787‚ a constitutional convention was called to revise the Articles of Confederation as they contained so many flaws‚ which would have fatally affected the confederation (Wendel‚ 1981). However
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"Perhaps the greatest service rendered by the Articles of Confederation was the impetus its shortcomings gave to those who favored a strong central government." After the Declaration of Independence‚ there was a sense among Congressman that they wanted a written document creating a government justifying the existence of the United States. The delegates of the Second Continental Congress were attempting to codify arrangements that had never before put into legal terminology. As a result‚ in
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1. Which of the following statements reflect the constitutional structure within the Articles of Confederation (1781-1789)? Approval of policies and treaty ratification required nine affirmative votes. State courts retained jurisdiction over most legal matters‚ except in cases of inter-state conflict. State governments would implement and pay for congressionally-approved policies. Any constitutional amendments required unanimous approval of all 13 states. All these answers are correct. 2. In
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the document to the required threshold of nine.” (Maier‚ 2010) difficulty now was getting anti-federalists to accept and abide by the new law. It is believed that the success in ratification of the Constitution hangs on the success of The great Compromise which was a series of trial and errors itself‚ the system in which the senate would represent each state large or small including the black
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