Nation of Nations Concise 2/e Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, & Stoff
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When you have finished studying this chapter, you should be able to:

1. Describe the character of the first state constitutions and explain the ways in which they reflected the postwar view of republicanism.

2. Describe the Articles of Confederation and explain why it proved unsatisfactory.

3. Explain the ways in which the settlement of the West gave rise to both diplomatic and domestic political conflicts, yet produced the Northwest Ordinance, which reconfigured sectional tension.

4. Explain how American revolutionaries understood "equality" and how this view shaped the scope and limits of social changes during the postrevolutionary period.

5. Describe the framing of the federal Constitution and explain why, by the late 1780s, many American political leaders were willing to establish a strong national government.

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