SS Review 6.3

Front

Which issues were discussed as states created their constitutions?

• preventing any one person or group from having too much power

• choosing a national anthem and flag

  choosing a national anthem and flag

• protecting freedom of speech, religion, and the press

• allowing the practice of enslavement

• choosing who would be allowed to vote

• electing the president of the U.S.

Back

• preventing any one person or group from having too much power

• protecting freedom of speech, religion, and the press

• allowing the practice of enslavement

• choosing who would be allowed to vote

Front

The Virginia Bill of Rights included many rights that British citizens already enjoyed, but it also gave Virginians something new.

What new right did it give?

Back

the right to practice any religion

Front

Why were the Articles of Confederation replaced with the Constitution?

Back

They made the federal government too weak.

Front

Which law took land from Virginia to create Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota?

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  Northwest Ordinance

Front

Which items were part of the Northwest Ordinance?

• a requirement for townships to provide land for public schools

• a guarantee of the freedom of religion, habeas corpus, the right to trial by jury

• a complete ban on enslavement in all new territories

• a denial of all voting rights for settlers in new territories

Back

• a requirement for townships to provide land for public schools

• a guarantee of the freedom of religion, habeas corpus, the right to trial by jury

• a complete ban on enslavement in all new territories

Front

Who helped organize the Constitutional Convention, wrote a new plan to propose there, and took notes on all that was discussed.

Back

James Madison

Front

What did James Madison think of the Articles of Confederation?

Back

He wanted to get rid of them and start from scratch at the Convention.

Front

Why did members of the Constitutional Convention want to keep their work a secret?

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  They did not want citizens to criticize their work before it was finished.