AMH2010 EXAM 2 Aftermath of the War for Independence TREATY OF PARIS SEPT 1783 British were ashamed of America and Britain s loss 13 colonies obtained all the land to the Atlantic Ocean to Mississippi River Spain took Florida back Paris drew a painting but the British didn t like it REPUBLICARISM A form of government which allowed for self government and against a strong centralized government THE WAR AND SLAVERY Slavery was never permitted in the North The slaves were used to manufacture things and carry goods for merchants in the North Slave owners looked at Declaration of Independence and viewed it hypocritical because all men are free The document was written by slave owners Northern states wanted to free slaves Gradual emancipation the slaves were eased into society Some slaves were free or born free They fought for American independence Southern slave owners wouldn t come to the same conclusion ELY WHITNEY went to go tutor plantations children He had dinner and started talking about cotton Ely invented the cotton gin His invention took away the cotton seed from the cotton Tobacco was on its way out due to the overused and poor soil Cotton got all the slaves back that were freed ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATIONS Colonies had to be governed The first thing that they did when created the government was not to tax anyone The government followed the articles of confederation It bounded the states together and not to tax It also said that congress did not have the ability to regulate trade and to collect a tariff tax on goods that are imported into the country taxation was left to the states Each state had a treaty with a country The colonists did not trust the federal government The articles were basically giving all of the power to the states Congress could sign peace treaties and declare war though they had to ask the states for money When making new laws congress had to ask the states to pass it and all the states had to agree PROBLEMS WITH THE ARTICLES All the land west of the Appalachian Mountains was claimed by the states For example Tennessee was claimed by NC After the war was over Maryland got mad because not every state got equal land out in the west Maryland wanted land the states said no So Maryland was going to veto all the laws Finally all the land out west was put on reserve and the other states lost their land that they claimed and those lands were forming into new states Congress wanted to build roads for trade but had to get money from the states The states were very selfish and congress became pissed ECONOMIC PROBLEMS The states went into an economic recession after the revolution 150 years before American Revolution America was involved in the trade triangle in the Atlantic Ocean Britain was a sore loser so they kicked America out of the trade triangle Basically US couldn t trade with anyone Anytime America goes to war the army needs to have food So farmers expanded their land and sold their food to the army The farmers could sell their food foreign and were in threat to lose all their land The people needed an output for their food but Europe does not want to trade with them with the individual states So the people came up with the conclusion that maybe they ll trade through congress SHAY S REBELLION The foreign fathers decided to have the congress have an economic problems meeting In 1786 shay s rebellion happened in Mass Daniel Shay was a farmer and a revolutionary veteran He was still paying for his farm he missed his payments for his farm because he was at war There were notes on his door saying that they will take away his farm if he didn t pay the bills This happened to many farmers Daniel Shay and his neighbors went to stop the courts from giving out the seizer notices Mass sent out their militia and Shay and his people left George Washington heard about Shay s Rebellion He and his economic friends met in Maryland and then a larger meeting was held in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to find the solution to the economic problem THE DELEGATES Most representatives though they were going to find a way to get out of the recession JAMES MADISON nation s 4th president had a different idea Madison was a genius who still lived with his parents He didn t have a job so he read all day mostly about all the other country s governments He started looking to create a whole new government where one state can t control everybody He wanted to fix all problems from the articles and to have one central government He had an ally Alexander Hamilton ALEXANDER HAMILTION He was born in the 1750s and in the Caribbean He went to work in the bank when he was young During his time there was a hurricane and he wrote a story about it His other family members sent him to college Columbia University and become a lawyer and later fight in the Revolution side by side with Washington Hamilton believed that people who had money could run a government He believes in a strong federal government bit only people who know how to handle money rich people can run it In Philly they held a meeting called the constitutional Convention THE VIRGINA PLAN James Madison comes up with the Virginia plan It basically said that there will be a congress that controls everything In congress there will be senate and representatives that will look after the checks and balances to make sure that congress won t hurt the colonists Each senate will be represented by a person A state with more people would have the most representation The colonial revision president and the state court can veto congress James Madison s plan sets up what we have now He believed that the larger states should have more power in the government THE NEW JERSEY PLAN The smaller states got together and came up with the New Jersey plan They were afraid that the larger states would run the government They wanted to keep the articles of confederation and maintain congress to allow it to have the power to tax and trade THE CONNECTICUT COMPROMISE This established the Electoral College apportioned representation and the 3 5 slave compromise as well They were basically the peace makers Alexander Hamilton was a delegate of New York and believed that larger states should have the power He wanted the wealthy people that were responsible to run the government Electoral College everyone that was eligible could vote and each district had an Electoral College that had the most votes was chosen The people are voting for the electoral votes Those electoral
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