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| 5884643766 | Protestant Episcoal Church | The reformed name of the Anglican Church. | 0 | |
| 5884643767 | 80,000 Loyalists | Left a great lack of conservatives, which weakened the aristocratic "upper crust" and let Patriot elites emerge. | 1 | |
| 5884643768 | Philadelphia Quakers | In 1775, they founded the first antislavery society. | 2 | |
| 5884643769 | Republican Motherhood | The idea that mothers devoted to their families. The women raised the children and thereby held the future of the republic in their hands. | 3 | |
| 5884643770 | The Continental Congress of 1776 | Called upon colonies to draft new constitutions, beginning the formation of the Articles of the Confederation. | 4 | |
| 5884643771 | Constitutional Convention | The constitution could only be changed through this convention. | 5 | |
| 5884643772 | American-British relations after the war. | Goods imported from England were cut off (America stopped all trade with Britain). Now able to trade with any country they want. Britain also flooded America with cheap goods, hurting American industries. | 6 | |
| 5884643773 | Social Changes after the war. | Inflation was rampant. The rich became poor and the newly rich were viewed with suspicion. | 7 | |
| 5884643774 | Confederation | A loose union of states where a federal and state level exist, yet the state level retains the most sovereignty to "do their own thing." States chose this as their first government. | 8 | |
| 5884643775 | The Articles of Confederation | Ratified on March 1, 1781. Set up a weak government purposely - did not want a strong national government like Britain, no executive branch, a weak Congress (could not regulate commerce and enforce tax collection), the federal government was weak. | 9 | |
| 5884643776 | The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 | If approved, a territory with 60,000 inhabitants and a written state constitution could become a state. | 10 | |
| 5884643777 | The Land Ordinance of 1785 | The new lands in the Ohio Valley were divided into townships and then into 36 square sections with one set aside for public schools. Proceeds would be used to pay off national debts. | 11 | |
| 5884643778 | Vermont Annexed to Britain | Britain were able to hold a chain of military posts on U.S. soil. | 12 | |
| 5884643779 | Mississippi River closed... | to American commerce in 1784 by Spain. | 13 | |
| 5884643780 | France demanded... | payment of U.S. debts to France. | 14 | |
| 5884643781 | Shays' Rebellion and Importance | Led by a former militia officer, Daniel Shay in western Massachusetts in 1786. A revolt in which farmers protested the foreclosures of farms for debt and briefly succeeded in shutting down the court system. Importance: the fear of such violence lived on and paranoia motivated folks to desire a stronger federal government. | 15 | |
| 5884643782 | A Convention of "Demigods" | A convention called in Annapolis, Maryland to address Articles' inability to regulate commerce. On May 25, 1787 55 delegates from 12 states met to revise it. The delegates then decided to create a new Constitution. | 16 | |
| 5884643783 | The Virginia Plan | A large state plan that called for Congressional representation based on state population. | 17 | |
| 5884643784 | The New Jersey Plan | A small state plan that called for equal representation from all states (each state got two representatives.) | 18 | |
| 5884643785 | The "Great Compromise" | The Congress would have two houses: the House of Representatives, where representation was based on population, the Senate, where each state got two representatives. | 19 | |
| 5884643786 | The Electoral College | Elected the president; the people viewed as too ignorant to vote. A buffer between the people and the presidency. | 20 | |
| 5884643787 | The Three-Fifths Compromise | Slaves would count as 3/5 of a person in census counts for representation. | 21 | |
| 5884643788 | Checks and Balances | A system created by the Convention to balance the three branches without one branch having more power than another. | 22 | |
| 5884643789 | The Federalists | Favored the proposed stronger government. Believed every branch of government represented the people. Most, former Loyalists who lived nearer the coasts in older areas. | 23 | |
| 5884643790 | Anti-federalists | Opposed to the Constitution. Believed only the legislative branch represented the people. Mostly poor classes who lived westward of the frontier. | 24 | |
| 5884643791 | The Bill of Rights | Added to the Constitution to satisfy the Ant-federalists. | 25 | |
| 5884643792 | The Federalist Papers | Written by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. It swayed New York. | 26 | |
| 5884643793 | The transition of governments... | was peaceful. | 27 | |
| 5884643794 | June 21, 1788 | the Constitution was ratified. | 28 |
