1. In early America, what was required for someone to be able to vote?

In the early years of America, voting was mostly limited to white men who owned property. Some states also required the voter to pay taxes or meet a certain level of wealth. Women enslaved people Native Americans and poor men were excluded from voting rights.

2. Which social class did most people belong to in early America?

Most people in early America were part of the lower or working class. They were small farmers, laborers, or craftsmen who worked hard to support themselves and their families, but they didn’t own large amounts of land or wealth.

3. What was Madison’s goal in writing Federalist #10?

Madison’s main goal in Federalist #10 was to explain how a large republic could protect against the dangers of factions groups of people with strong interests that might go against the common good. He believed that a big republic would make it harder for any single group to take too much control.

4. Why were the people who wrote the Constitution so afraid of democracy?

The framers of the Constitution worried that pure democracy would give too much power to the majority, who might act on passion or self interest and harm the rights of minorities or property owners. They wanted to create a system of checks and balances to keep power from concentrating in one place.

5. What were some of the reasons why the Constitution never abolished the slave trade?

The Constitution did not abolish the slave trade because slavery was deeply tied to the economy, especially in the South. Southern states depended on enslaved labor for farming, and they threatened to reject the Constitution if slavery was banned. To keep the states united the framers compromised and allowed slavery to continue.