Lecture Notes 10/04/06
The notes today covered four topics in particulary
1. Slavery in America Post Revolution
2. American Expansion West
3. Shay's Rebellion
and
4. The Ratification of the Constitution
1. -Slaves who'd served in the Continental Army were occasionally given their freedom. While the British moved through Georgia in the Revolution, they also freed many slaves.
- Following the revolutionary timeframe, several states passed laws allowing emancipation for the slaves, particulary up North.
-Virginia and Maryland gave slave owners the right to grant their slaves freedom, and banned the Atlantic Slave Trade.
- In the South, only Georgia and South Carolina kept the Atlantic Slave Trade open.
- Looked like slavery was starting to go "out the door" before the Civil War even started brewing.
2. -Proclamation of 1763 was no longer valid post-Revolution, allowing settlers to go West.
-During the Revolution, Daniel Boone had created the Wilderness Road from Maryland to Kentucky.
- In the forts opened to America after the Seven Years War, the British were still occupying them, and this broke the rules of the Treaty of Paris. The British claimed the Americans weren't following it either by not granting Loyalists passage to England/Canada, or letting debtors claim the legitimate debts Amerians owed them.
- Congress also faced a problem because all the soldiers they had promised land had to be taken from the Native Americans.
- As a result of this two VERY IMPORTANT laws were passed by Congress (likely to be quizzed on).
- The reason for this was because the US economy had gone into a hole following the war, and farmers had no hard cash to pay off their mortgages and taxes, because of this the government of Massachusetts started foreclosings the farms.
- Shay marched in to interrupt court proceedings and prevent these closings from occurring.
- Although Massachusetts asked for help from Congress, they were unable to raise an army due to the holes in the Articles of Confederation.
- Because of Shay's Rebellion, people started becoming concerned that the Articles of Confederation were too weak. leading straight into the formation of a constitution.
4. - Virginia called a meeting to fix the Articles of Confederation (AoC), but four states didn't come. All states however, agreed to send delegates to a constitutional convention in Philadelphia.
- Just as the convention started, Virginia had a new plan aptly named the "Virginia Plan" that proposed a two house legislature that could pass laws and had no power to tax or regulate trade. The representation would've been set by population, which immediately made the smaller states disapprove of it.
- They countered with the New Jersey Plan, which started generating disagreement at the convention.
- The tough issue was how to determine representation in the legislature.
- The "Great Compromise" said there would be a two house legislature, House of Representatives. All of the delegates agree to this. Results in new constitution which needs to be ratified by nine states.
- Those who were in favor of it were Federalists, those opposed Anti-Federalists. The AFs demanded a Bill of Rights to accompany the document. Once the Feds agreed to this, eight states had ratified it.
This is where the notes for today concluded, we're supposed to cover the rest of it tomorrow before the quiz, but it's of note that all of this information was in the reading we've done (particularly last nights). Two things the G mentioned to know for the quiz was the role of Richard Henry Lee, who proposed independence for the colonies informally; and what a Republican Mother is, which is a national movement that encouraged moms to teach their children how to be a good citizen of the United States of America. Good luck tomorrow on the quiz guys,
-Tom
1. Slavery in America Post Revolution
2. American Expansion West
3. Shay's Rebellion
and
4. The Ratification of the Constitution
1. -Slaves who'd served in the Continental Army were occasionally given their freedom. While the British moved through Georgia in the Revolution, they also freed many slaves.
- Following the revolutionary timeframe, several states passed laws allowing emancipation for the slaves, particulary up North.
-Virginia and Maryland gave slave owners the right to grant their slaves freedom, and banned the Atlantic Slave Trade.
- In the South, only Georgia and South Carolina kept the Atlantic Slave Trade open.
- Looked like slavery was starting to go "out the door" before the Civil War even started brewing.
2. -Proclamation of 1763 was no longer valid post-Revolution, allowing settlers to go West.
-During the Revolution, Daniel Boone had created the Wilderness Road from Maryland to Kentucky.
- In the forts opened to America after the Seven Years War, the British were still occupying them, and this broke the rules of the Treaty of Paris. The British claimed the Americans weren't following it either by not granting Loyalists passage to England/Canada, or letting debtors claim the legitimate debts Amerians owed them.
- Congress also faced a problem because all the soldiers they had promised land had to be taken from the Native Americans.
- As a result of this two VERY IMPORTANT laws were passed by Congress (likely to be quizzed on).
- Land Ordinance of 1785: Authorized surveyors to go out and look at the Northwest Territory, and divide it into a thirty six miles in area square. Also had thirty six sections, divided by mile. The government sold this land to people, and reserved a square for public education, a step ahead of it's time.
- Northwest Ordinance of 1787: In the Northwest territory, Congress said that they would allow three to five states to be formed there. This Ordiance set the regulations to become a state. Once the population of the area reaches five thousand, it gets a governor, becomes a territory, and is allowed to elect their own legislature. Once the amount of people swells to sixty thousand, the settlers there are allowed to draft a constitution and get it approved by the national government. Once this happens, the territory can officially become a state. This Ordinance also barred slavery in the Northwest Territory/States.
- The reason for this was because the US economy had gone into a hole following the war, and farmers had no hard cash to pay off their mortgages and taxes, because of this the government of Massachusetts started foreclosings the farms.
- Shay marched in to interrupt court proceedings and prevent these closings from occurring.
- Although Massachusetts asked for help from Congress, they were unable to raise an army due to the holes in the Articles of Confederation.
- Because of Shay's Rebellion, people started becoming concerned that the Articles of Confederation were too weak. leading straight into the formation of a constitution.
4. - Virginia called a meeting to fix the Articles of Confederation (AoC), but four states didn't come. All states however, agreed to send delegates to a constitutional convention in Philadelphia.
- Just as the convention started, Virginia had a new plan aptly named the "Virginia Plan" that proposed a two house legislature that could pass laws and had no power to tax or regulate trade. The representation would've been set by population, which immediately made the smaller states disapprove of it.
- They countered with the New Jersey Plan, which started generating disagreement at the convention.
- The tough issue was how to determine representation in the legislature.
- The "Great Compromise" said there would be a two house legislature, House of Representatives. All of the delegates agree to this. Results in new constitution which needs to be ratified by nine states.
- Those who were in favor of it were Federalists, those opposed Anti-Federalists. The AFs demanded a Bill of Rights to accompany the document. Once the Feds agreed to this, eight states had ratified it.
This is where the notes for today concluded, we're supposed to cover the rest of it tomorrow before the quiz, but it's of note that all of this information was in the reading we've done (particularly last nights). Two things the G mentioned to know for the quiz was the role of Richard Henry Lee, who proposed independence for the colonies informally; and what a Republican Mother is, which is a national movement that encouraged moms to teach their children how to be a good citizen of the United States of America. Good luck tomorrow on the quiz guys,
-Tom
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