Related reading includes Chapter 4, Section #1, Explore, Pages 1-7 & Chapter 4, Section #2, Explore, Pages 1-6 from the Discovery Techbook.
Students will learn about:
the shortcomings of the Articles of Confederation as our first national constitution.
how the ordinances of 1785 and 1787 privatized national resources and transferred federally owned lands into private holdings, townships, and states.
The Constitutional Convention and ratification of our Constitution.
the major debates that occurred during the development of the Constitution and their ultimate resolutions in such areas as shared power among institutions, divided state-federal power, slavery, the rights of individuals and states.