APUSH Ch. 9 The Confederationand the Constitution, 1776-1790 Flashcards

Chapter 9, random questions.

95437983	Protestent Episcopal church	new name for the anglican church after it was disestablished and deanglicized in virginia and elsewhere.	0
95437984	Republican Motherhood	the idea that American women had a special responsibility to cultivate civic cirtue in their children.	1
95437985	Constitutional Convention	A type of special assembly, originally developed in Massachusetts, for drawing up a fundamental law that would be superior to ordinary law.	2
95437986	Articles of Confederation	Firts constitutional government of the US.	3
95437987	Old NW Territory	the territory north of the Ohio river and east of the Mississippi tiver that came to be governed by the confederations acts of 1785 and 1787	4
95437988	Township	6 mile by 6 mile square areas consisting of 36 sections, one of which was set aside for public schools.	5
95437989	Shay's rebellion	a failed revolt in 1786 by poor debtor farmers that raised fears of mobocracy	6
95437990	Virginia Plan	The large-state plan proposed to the Const. Convention by which representation both house of the federal legislature would be based on population.	7
95437991	NJ Plan	The small-state plan proposed to the Const. Convention by which every state would have completely equal representation in a unicameral legislature.	8
95437992	The Federalist	A masterly series of pro-Constitution articles printed in New York by Jay, Madison, and Hamilton.	9
95437993	Benjamin Franklin	Revered elder statesman whose prestige in the Const. Conven. helped facilitate the Great Comp.	10
95437994	George Washington	Unanimously elected chairman of the secret conven. of demigods	11
95437995	FEDERALISTS	Wealthy conservatives devoted to republicanism who engineered a nonviolent political transformation	12
95437996	ANTIFEDERALISTS	Group that failed to block the central government they feared but did force the promise of a bill of rights.	13
95437997	Patrick Henry	Virginia antifederalist leader who thought the Const. spelled the end of liberty and equality.	14
95437998	Alexander Hamilton	Young new yourker who argued eloquently for the Const. even though he favored an even stronger central government	15
95437999	John Jay	Frustrated foregn affairs secretary under the Articles; one of the three authors of The Federalist.	16
95438000	Samuel Adams	Leading Mass. radical during the Amer. Revolution who led the opposition to the Const. in his state in 1787	17