[HIST 105] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (171 pages long!)
29 Nov 2016
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It was natural for each of these new independent states to concentrate on making a constitution and making a government for themselves. Conventions system = you have a special election and the purpose is to choose delegates representative of the people who will participate in this convention and the only purpose is to say yes/no to constitution. Newspapers introduced a new style of journalism appealing to a mass audience by emphasizing sensationalism, crime stories, and exposes of official misconduct. Offered protection to goods that could be produced in the us while admitting tax free those that couldn"t be manufactured at home. Madison was convinced that allowing the national government to exercise powers not mentioned in the constitution would prove dangerous to individual liberty and southern interests. Stimulated demand for loans to purchase land, which local banks and branches of the bank of the us were only too happy to meet by printing more money.
