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New Nation Pre-Assessment

New Nation Pre-Assessment. 1. What is the Constitution? 2. What is the Bill of Rights? 3. What are the names of the two parts of Congress? 4. Name the three branches of government. 5. Name the basic responsibility (job) of each branch. Guiding Question.

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New Nation Pre-Assessment

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  1. New Nation Pre-Assessment 1. What is the Constitution? 2. What is the Bill of Rights? 3. What are the names of the two parts of Congress? 4. Name the three branches of government. 5. Name the basic responsibility (job) of each branch.

  2. Guiding Question Why have the democratic principles of the Constitution been able to withstand time?

  3. Goals and Objectives • Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and determine the reasons for its failure. • Complete a CLOZE activity that describes the creation and outline of the Constitution. • Define and describe the three branches of government and the system of checks and balances. • Present a speech from the point of view of a Federalists or Anti-Federalists that influences citizens of North Carolina to vote for or against the Constitution.

  4. Post Revolutionary War Problems • Need for a government • Sectionalism – colonies were not unified • No uniform currency • No trading policies • Poor transportation

  5. Articles of Confederation • Our first constitution • Created a loose alliance of states • Granted more power to the states due to their fear of a strong central government (KING)

  6. Strengths of the AoC • Power to print money • Conduct foreign affairs • Raise an army • Establish a postal system • Created a legislative branch

  7. Weaknesses of the AoC • Each state had one vote, but required a unanimous decision • Unable to collect taxes • No executive or judicial branch

  8. Causes of Shay’s Rebellion • Daniel shay’s was a Massachusetts farmer who fought in the Revolutionary War. • After the war, the newly founded U.S. attempted to collect taxes from its citizens. Since veteran’s of the war were not paid, and these patriots left their homes to fight, they had no money to pay taxes. • Many farmers, like Shay, ended up in debtor’s prison for being unable to pay their taxes. Shay organized a rebellion against the government.

  9. Effects of Shay’s Rebellion • The rebellion proved that the Articles of Confederation was too weak. • The national government lacked control over the states and couldn’t protest against an armed rebellion. • Delegates met at the Constitutional Convention to discuss revising the government.

  10. As a result of the American Revolution, the United States finally gained 1._____________. The young country now needed to write a 2.________________ (plan of government). Their first plan was called the Articles of 3._______________. Because of their experience under the rule of the 4.__________ of England, the framers purposely left the central government 5.__________. They gave most of the power to the 6._____________. After Daniel Shays leads a 7._____________ of a group farmers, delegates fromeach state meet to revise the Articles.

  11. Peanuts Video • What is the setting (time and place) of the writing of the Constitution? • List the names of the famous “founding fathers” mentioned in the video who took part in the Constitutional Convention. • Describe what the setting and debate was like inside Independence Hall. • Name as many issues as you can which the delegates at the convention debated. • What were the outcomes of these debates?

  12. What is the setting (time and place) of the writing of the Constitution? • 1. The summer of 1787 in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 11 years after the Declaration of Independence.

  13. List the names of the famous “founding fathers” mentioned in the video who took part in the Constitutional Convention. • 2. Washington, Randolph, Hamilton, Franklin, Morris, Madison, Sherman, Gary, Mason, Wilson, Ellsworth, Pinckney, Rutledge

  14. Describe what the setting and debate was like inside Independence Hall. • 3. hot, long, difficult, secretive, close to failure

  15. Name as many issues as you can which the delegates at the convention debated. • representation in the House of Representative and the Senate, who would be Head of State, election of officials, Judiciary Branch, slavery, Bill of Rights

  16. What were the outcomes of these debates? • one president, Senate would have equal representation and the House would be decided by population, officials would be elected by the people

  17. AnalogiesExample - sky : blue :: grass : ______ (answer =green) 1.) Supreme Court : judicial :: ______ : executive 2.) upper house : ______ :: lower house : House of Representatives 3.) Articles of Confederation: first constitution :: ______ : first 10 amendments 4.) Antifederalists: oppose the Constitution :: Federalists : for the Constitution 5.) make laws : ______ :: enforces laws : executive 6.) George Washington: first president :: ___________: father of the Constitution 7.) appoints judges : executive :: approves judges : ______

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