<p>Why? Chart 4.2 Read 118-124 in Holt(4.2)</p><p>What was happening? Why? (or How?)</p><p>The Constitution provides for a bicameral (two houses) legislature.</p><p>Guarantees of due process can be traced back to 1215.</p><p>The Constitution begins with the words, We the people…</p><p>The national government found it difficult to defend against foreign threats.</p><p>We couldn’t force the British out of the west.</p><p>Once profitable trade routes were drying up.</p><p>Spain was messing with our trade with impunity.</p><p>There was an alarming imbalance of trade.</p><p>Congress was powerless to stop inflation.</p><p>The country was sinking into a depression.</p><p>Massachusetts farmers were mad.</p><p>Shays and his cohort were not hanged.</p><p>A constitutional convention was proposed.</p>