Read Pages 240-245 in Holt and 166-167 in History Alive

Why? Chart 4.2 Read 118-124 in Holt(4.2)

What was happening? Why? (or How?)

The Constitution provides for a bicameral (two houses) legislature.

Guarantees of due process can be traced back to 1215.

The Constitution begins with the words, We the people…

The national government found it difficult to defend against foreign threats.

We couldn’t force the British out of the west.

Once profitable trade routes were drying up.

Spain was messing with our trade with impunity.

There was an alarming imbalance of trade.

Congress was powerless to stop inflation.

The country was sinking into a depression.

Massachusetts farmers were mad.

Shays and his cohort were not hanged.

A constitutional convention was proposed.