Part-I
1. What were the various problems with the Articles of Confederation?
2. How did Shays Rebellion motivate "the founders" to hold a convention to resolve the problems of the Articles?
3. Considering the list of problems related to the Articles of Confederation, how would they have to change the distribution of power in government?
4. How did each of the three branches of the proposed constitution limit democracy?
5. How did the Constitution create a legal identity for African-American's that enshrined inequality?
6. What promise did Federalists make to convince Anti-federalist's to ratify the constitution?
7. Who did the Bill of Rights attempt to protect individuals from? How can our knowledge of previous module sections help us understand why Ant-federalists felt the need for these protected rights?
Part-II
1. What is the difference between the self-sufficient farmers of the 18th century and commercial farmers of the 19th century?
2. What is the difference between 19th century private freedoms during the market revolution and the 18th century public freedoms during the revolutionary era?
3. How did the various communications and transportation technologies help in laying the foundation for the market revolution?
4. How did technological advancement in agriculture help transform the nations farmers from self-sustaining to commercial farmers? How did this help create the market revolution?
5. In the chart above, write the terms in the left hand column and then fill out what characteristics of the American Mind it reaffirmed and/or what characteristics it helped crate.
6. How did the Transcendentalists, the Second Great Awakening, and the emerging cult of domesticity reinforce old characteristics of the American Mind and/or create new characteristics listed in the above chart?