The Republican Experiment

Leaders in the Confederation

Period

18th Century Women

Philadelphia Convention Early States

Northwest Ordinance

100 100 100 100 100

200 200 200 200 200

300 300 300 300 300

400 400 400 400 400

500 500 500 500 500Final Jeopardy

Negotiated a treaty with the Spanish that aroused southern and Western hostility

John Jay

He proposed a National Bank

Robert Morris

He drafted an important ordinance of 1784 that later served as basis for Land and Northwestern ordinances.

Thomas Jefferson

He confronted frustrated army officers to prevent rebellion

George Washington

He countered Montesquieu’s argument against a large republic.

James Madison

She was the first African American woman to publish a book

Phillis Wheatley

She carried water to soldiers during the battle of Monmouth. Nicknamed Molly Pitcher.

Mary McCauley

In 1780 she founded the first women’s volunteer organization in Philadelphia.

Ester Reed

She impersonated a man to fight in the Revolutionary war.

Deborah Sampson

She pleaded with her husband to limit the power of husbands. She was also the wife of the 2nd president.

Abigail Adams

This is the only state to no send delegates to the Convention.

Rhode Island

This plan would have a bicameral legislation.

The Virginia Plan

This determined how slaves would be counted towards representation in government.

3/5ths Compromise

First state to adopt the constitution on December 7, 1787.

Delaware

He refused to attend the convention because he “smelled a rat”

Patrick Henry

This state repealed female suffrage in 1807.

New Jersey

To accommodate the western migration, this state moved its capital from New Bern to Raleigh.

North Carolina

In 1777, before becoming a state their draft of the constitution specifically prohibited slavery.

Vermont

John Adams served as chief architect of this states constitution

Massachusetts

Benjamin Banneker was this state’s first African American astronomer and mathematician

Maryland

When was the Northwest Ordinance created?

1787

How many new territories did the Northwest Ordinance create?

5

How many people were required to live in a territory before it could apply for statehood?

60,000

How many people were required to have an elective assembly?

5,000

This was outlawed by the Northwest Ordinance in the Northwest territories.

Slavery

Rebellion

A veteran of the Battle of Bunker Hill, he led a rebellion of poor indebted landowners in Massachusetts and blocked a courthouse and prevented the government from arresting or repressing property of those in debt

Daniel Shays