1.2 Historic Documents​

Learning Targets:

• Explain a grievance listed in the Declaration of Independence in terms of its relationship to Enlightenment ideas of natural rights and the social contract. ​
• Show how the Northwest Ordinance, in providing government for the Northwest Territory, established a precedent for governing the United States.​
• Develop an argument that a particular provision of the Constitution of the United States would help address a problem facing the United States in the 1780s.​
• Explain a provision of the Constitution of the United States in terms of how it reflects Enlightenment thinking.
• Compare the arguments of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists on a common topic related to the ratification of the Constitution of the United States and hypothesize why the winning argument was more persuasive.
• Cite evidence for historical precedents to the rights incorporated in the Bill of Rights. ​

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