B Day HW: Experimenting with Confederation, Drafting & Ratifying the Constitution- Due 11/4

Introduction: This visual hexagon assignment does not deal with one central question, but several questions. All questions connect back to the first form of government the newly independent states formed, the Articles of Confederation, and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Your job is to identify each image and link it to the question it answered (we will answer the questions in class)

Video 1

Video 2

Questions: 

1. Why do you think the news of Shays's Rebellion made states decide to participate in the Philadelphia Convention? 

2. What was the basic difference between the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

3. What were some of the problems with the Articles of Confederation?

4. What compromises emerged from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia? 

5. In what ways did the new system of government fulfill the nation's need for a stronger central government and at the same time put to rest  its fear of a government having too much power? 

6. Do you think the Federalists or the Anti-Federalists had the more valid arguments? Why?