So in 1787 a Constitutional Convention was held in Philadelphia in what is now called Independence Hall. State legislators chose seventy-four delegates to go to the convention. ... The delegates came to the convention to re-write the articles because everyone was complaining that the government was too weak. ... Despite some disagreements, the delegates did agree on most of the issues. ... Even though they all agreed on the structure of the new government, the delegates argued about the issues concerning representation, slavery, and trade. ...

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President Lincoln's plan was lenient towards the South, but it did ensure a quick restoration of the Union. ... However, no one who had held office or had fought under the Confederacy would be aloud to vote or serve as a delegate to a state constitutional convention. ... Blacks nor whites enjoyed this system, but as blacks still faced the same conditions as they did under slavery and whites had to pay out capital that they did not have. ... The leaders of the Reconstruction did not give full acknowledgement to this problem of economic servitude. ... In the Compromise of 1877, Republic...

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Jackson served as delegate to Tenn. in the 1796 Constitutional convention and a congressman for a year (from 1796-97). ... In retaliation of this insulting lack of concern of the South's voice in government, South Carolina acting on the doctrine of Nullification which stated that the union was made up of the states and that the states had the right to null or void a law if they didn't agree with it, declared the federal tariff laws of 1828 and 1832 invalid and prohibited collection of tariff's after February first of 1833. ... Jackson did not make the Second Bank of the United S...

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• Grade Level: High School