1. Path to Independence and Republicanism Unit 3
Chapter 6 Making War and Republican Governments

2. Revolutionary War Patriot success Treaty of Paris 1783
Ideological commitment
George Washington
Continental Army
Battle of Saratoga 1777
Treaty of Alliance 1778
Battle of Yorktown 1781
Treaty of Paris 1783

3. Effects of War Increased awareness of inequalities Call for abolition
Greater political participation in new state and national government
French Revolution, Haitian Revolution
Republican Motherhood

4. Articles of Confederation
“Firm League of Friendship”
Western Land main point of contention
Land Ordinance 1785
Northwest Ordinance 1787

5. State Claims to Western Lands

6. Land Ordinance of 1785

7. Articles of Confederation
Provisions
Congress, no executive or judicial
Equal representation
2/3 majority for approval of legislation
Amendments required unanimous consent

8. Article of Confederation
Intentionally weak
States had the power
No power to regulate commerce
No power to tax
Vulnerable to revolution
Newburgh Conspiracy 1783
Shay’s Rebellion 1786
Barbary Pirates
Weakness would lead to Constitution

9. James Madison Father of the Constitution
Federalism
“We the people…” not “We the states…”

10. A Bundle of Compromises
Representation
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
The Great Compromise
Strong Executive branch
Elastic Clause and Supremacy Clause
Commerce Clause

11. North-South Issues Three-fifths Compromise
Slave trade would end in 1808
Fugitive slave provision

12. Conservative Safeguards
Check the excesses of the “mob”
Shay’s Rebellion, American Revolution
Federal judges appointed for life
Electoral College
Senators chosen indirectly by state legislators
Charles Beard
Economic Interpretation of the Constitution. 1913

14. Ratification Special conventions to ratify Anti-Federalists
No Bill of Rights
Federalists
The Federalist Papers-Hamilton and Madison
Separation of powers. Federalist 51
Extended republic to control factions. The bigger the better. Federalists 10

15. Hamilton, Madison, and Jay

16. Analysis
To what extent was the United States Constitution a radical departure from the Articles of Confederation?