In 1784, rich Boston families founded the Sans Souci Club. This club was believed to defy civilization as it set the difference between luxury and work. Men could gamble and girls over sixteen were allowed to enter. Samuel Adams greatly opposed this and was very disappointed that they had won their freedom just to let it become corrupted. He predicted that these scandalous acts performed at the club would escalate and take over the whole city, which he compared to the fall of Rome.
After the Revolution, the Americans went through many changes. They grew out of the custom that your power should be passed down to your children, as it had been in Great Britain. The Society of Cincinnati was a hereditary organization made up of soldiers who fought …show more content…
First, the land belonged to the Native Americans even though the States had claimed it. Congress made “treaties” with the natives allowing the Americans to take the land and the natives could not do anything about it since they had obtained the land from the British who no longer were in control of the colonies. Some of the smaller states that had established their borders felt it unfair that larger states that had not established their borders could claim large areas of land when smaller ones could not. These smaller states threatened to not join the Confederation. Private companies had bought the land before the war and had asked for it to be legitimized by Parliament, but it never was. After the war, however, these companies went to Congress, specifically to the representatives of the smaller states, where they liberally distributed the stocks and gained the support of many people including the governor of Maryland. This caused the smaller states to join the Confederation. The land out west was unorganized without federal government, but this changed due to efforts made by Congress. Their first act was the Ordinance of 1784 which created ten new states out of the land. Each new territory had to form a republican government and could become a state if their population was equal with the population of the smallest present state and allowed every white man a vote. The second act was the …show more content…
It also recommended. giving the national government veto power over bill passed by state legislatures. The New Jersey Plan, however, called for a strong national government with one house of Congress in which all states would have equal representation. To compromise, they made two houses, the House of Representatives as the lower house and the Senate as the upper house. The House of Representatives had representation proportional to the state’s population and Senate had two representatives for each
After the Revolution, the Americans went through many changes. They grew out of the custom that your power should be passed down to your children, as it had been in Great Britain. The Society of Cincinnati was a hereditary organization made up of soldiers who fought …show more content…
First, the land belonged to the Native Americans even though the States had claimed it. Congress made “treaties” with the natives allowing the Americans to take the land and the natives could not do anything about it since they had obtained the land from the British who no longer were in control of the colonies. Some of the smaller states that had established their borders felt it unfair that larger states that had not established their borders could claim large areas of land when smaller ones could not. These smaller states threatened to not join the Confederation. Private companies had bought the land before the war and had asked for it to be legitimized by Parliament, but it never was. After the war, however, these companies went to Congress, specifically to the representatives of the smaller states, where they liberally distributed the stocks and gained the support of many people including the governor of Maryland. This caused the smaller states to join the Confederation. The land out west was unorganized without federal government, but this changed due to efforts made by Congress. Their first act was the Ordinance of 1784 which created ten new states out of the land. Each new territory had to form a republican government and could become a state if their population was equal with the population of the smallest present state and allowed every white man a vote. The second act was the …show more content…
It also recommended. giving the national government veto power over bill passed by state legislatures. The New Jersey Plan, however, called for a strong national government with one house of Congress in which all states would have equal representation. To compromise, they made two houses, the House of Representatives as the lower house and the Senate as the upper house. The House of Representatives had representation proportional to the state’s population and Senate had two representatives for each