APUSH Chapter 9 terms – Flashcards

law surveyed the lands and divided it into squares to be sold; A section was 1 mile by 1 mile; township was 6 miles by 6 miles; Each section was numbered and could be sub-divided for sale.

set the territory-to-statehood such as first, Each section was numbered and could be sub-divided for sale. then, Once a territory got 60,000 inhabitants they could write a state constitution then send it to Congress for approval.

Daniel Shays' was disgruntled over difficulties involving farmland mortgages and He and friends staged a take-over in parts of Massachusetts but then was stopped by the Massachusetts army because the government did not have one; lead to a desire for a more central federal government

large state plan; representation would be based on a state's population

small state plan; states should have an equal vote in Congress

Congress would be bicameral (have 2 houses), The House of Representatives would be based on state population, following the Virginia Plan, Bills pertaining to taxation would begin in the House, The Senate would have 2 senators from each state making them equal, following the New Jersey Plan, The Senate would approve/reject presidential treaties and appointments

a group of official presidential voters who voted for the president

agreed to count 3/5 of the slaves as part of the state's population

was needed to prevent any one branch from hording too much power and mobocracy; Federal chief justices were appointed for life, thus creating stability that conservatives liked, The electoral college created a buffer between the people and the presidency, Senators were elected by state legislators who were supposedly educated, not by the common people, voters actually only voted for 1/2 of 1/3 of the government

voters actually only voted for 1/2 of 1/3 of the government, a stronger central government to establish and maintain order, and from the more well-to-do classes

did not want the Constitution ratified, believed Constitution gave too much power to the national government, felt that the Constitution had been written by and for the aristocratic folks and that it threatened people's independence and freedoms, and from less-educated class

propaganda/commentary on the constituion

Virginia and New York (and others) had large claims from earlier years over the lands west of the Appalachians, many of these claims overlapped one another, many of these claims overlapped one another

"demigod" of the convention and wanted a strong Central government (favored aristocratic rule) (elite because they are educated); government by merchants, financial government; got states to appoint delegates

man in the middle of the convention, father of the constitution, helped frame Bill of Rights and enact the 1st revenue legislation, and benefited extended republic

While most others attempted to avoid the issue and any debate over it, he was one of the few men at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to take a public stand against slavery.