HIST 150 Study Guide - Saint-Domingue, Manifest Destiny, Party System
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Discuss the transformation of the american national government from the. Describe some of the major elements of the new federal government under the. Constitution and how it differed from the confederation. Divided west into small squares, solution to the challenge over how to divide land. One of the most impactful laws that has ever occurred. Confederation was too weak at creating strong national authority. Constitution allowed more power to go to the national government v. s. having it just local. Citizens couldn"t claim the bill of rights under the articles of. Power is within central authority in constitution, but in the confederation, Discuss the evolution of american government and politics from the 1790s to the. Describe how the french revolution complicated this era, especially toward the end of the first decade of the 1800s. Struggle over ratification & constitution of 1787. Attention shifted from creating the new government to evaluating how powerful that government was.
