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Week 1 & 2 Assignment 2

Week 1 & 2 Assignment 2

Q Mcclain chapter 2 to answer the following questions from the McClain chapter two, McClain textbook chapter two .pdfDownload McClain textbook chapter two .pdf chapter outline click, mcclain-tauber_Chapter 02.pdf mcclain-tauber4e_Ch 02.pptxDownload mcclain-tauber4e_Ch 02.pptx 1. What is a confederation? Why was it important to the founders to create this type of system? 2. Identify the major rebellion that exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation? Explain how this showed that the nation needed institutional change in order to survive. • 2nd attempt, McClain ch2, background sites click,https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/a-teachers-guide-to-the-constitutional-convention-exhibit/ • Next Convention > Delegates [demographic information occupation] 3. Explain the importance of the main procedural decisions that were made at the beginning of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Be sure to demonstrate how they influenced the outcome of the convention. 4. What was the Great Compromise? Hint: Virginia and New Jersey Plans combined 5. What was the Three-Fifths Compromise? Why was it necessary? Hint: review evaluating equality: the effect of.....on political power in the south 6. What were some of the arguments of the Anti-Federalists? Why were they concerned about the Constitution? 7. What is the supremacy clause? 8. Define “separation of powers” and “checks and balances”. Why are these concepts important in the U.S. political system? 9. Explain the connection between enumerated and implied powers? • Define enumerated and implied powers. • Explain that implied powers are based on enumerated powers. 10. What are the three branches of government under the Constitution, and what are their roles? Which branch of government existed under the Articles of Confederation? 5 points:Federalist Paper #10 • Submit Five questions/Answers total from both or one of the documents below: Your choice • multiple choice questions with highlighted excerpts click, Madison_10_exerpts(2) (2) (2)-1.pdfDownload Madison_10_exerpts(2) (2) (2)-1.pdf • questions grid with highlighted excerpt click, Questions/highlight_madison#10 analysis • The original document, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/federalist-no-10-2/Links to an external site. • Same Madison federalist# 10 source with slightly different questions click, CI_Federalist No 10.pdfDownload CI_Federalist No 10.pdf submission resource guide CLICK, How to submit an assignment Links to an external site. Video resources • McClain's chp2 - "road to revolution" different point of view, TEMPEST IN A TEACUP - Tea Party as smugglers click, http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/33-tempest-in-a-teacupLinks to an external site. OR, https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/tempest-in-a-teacup/ • Shay's Rebellion background short Cartoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKca3A1Lo9wLinks to an external site. • Constitution o Debt------- Letter and Politics, KPFA.org o copy/paste to Url: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/rec/share/UxcTl-_ShtjBZF41e3ssD4WcY6Pg92ylWYb6OTyEPDA8PYot2w-E0buq5SK6TkMW.yUOhRjAWgE2Rg2ts?startTime=1599938467000 o McClain ch2, background site click,

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1. A confederation is a system in which states or other types of gov't units organize a weak central gov't with limited scope and powers while reserving ultimate power for themselves. 2. The rebellion that exposed the articles of confederation was Shay's rebellion. Congress tried to raise troops to aid, but they had no real power in the situation to support them financially. Congress could only ask other states to provide them the money they needed, which in this case they could not receive any. 3. The decisions that were made at the beginning of the convention in Philadelphia were important because those decisions led to the arrangement known as the concurrent powers.