Standard
Standard 12.1.5: Describe the systems of separated and shared powers, the role of organized interests (Federalist Paper #10), checks and balances (Federalist Paper #51), the importance of an independent judiciary (Federalist Paper # 78)
Goals and Objectives
SWBAT: Identify the key differences between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. The learning will be demonstrated with 100% accuracy when students complete the graphic organizer and their one page essay.
SWBAT: Identify the what the Connecticut/ Great Compromise is with an 80%. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the material by completing written essay at the end of the lesson discussing the Federalist Papers.
Historical Question: What type of government did Federalists and Anti-Federalists prefer?
SWBAT: Identify the what the Connecticut/ Great Compromise is with an 80%. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the material by completing written essay at the end of the lesson discussing the Federalist Papers.
Historical Question: What type of government did Federalists and Anti-Federalists prefer?
Vocabulary
Students will complete a modified foursquare vocabulary sheet for each of the following vocabulary words. The students will rate themselves on their knowledge of the word by circling a number listed 1-4. Students will then define the word in their. Students will also create a pictogram that will help them remember the word. The pictogram must use color. Finally, the student has a personal space to use for any additional help they may need for the word i.e. translation into home language. The vocabulary words come directly from the state standard:
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Lesson Introduction
Mini Lecture touching on these key points
- The Constitutional Convention met in 1787 to draft a new Constitution.
- One of the biggest debates at the Constitutional Convention was over representation—populous states wanted proportional representation,
- Anti-Federalists thought that the solution was not good enough. They wanted more representation. They worried that 1 person could not
- After the Constitution was written, it had to be ratified by 9 states. There were very extensive debates between Federalists (who supported the Constitution) and Anti-Federalists (who opposed a strong central government).
Content Delivery
Inform the students that they will be reading some documents from the New York Constitution Ratification Convention in June 1787, which was the most heatedly debated of all the states.
Student Engagement
Students will read the primary source documents from Alexander Hamilton and Melancton Smith and fill in Graphic Organizer.
Students will participate in answering these guiding questions one they are done.
Students will participate in answering these guiding questions one they are done.
- What was Hamilton’s position on representation
- What was Smith’s position?
- What arguments did they make in support of their claims?Federalists and Anti-Federalists
- Based on these arguments, what type of people would you guess tended to be Federalists? Anti-Federalists?
- If you could have chosen, what side would you have supported?
- Do you see versions of these issues being debated today?
Demonstrated Learning
Students will take the graphic organizer that they have filled out and use that to write a one page essay answering the historical question, "What type of government did Federalists and Anti-Federalists prefer?" Following their essay, the teacher will debrief with the students regarding their answers to the question and also go over the lesson closure questions. This will allow the students to share out with others what they have learned.
Lesson Closure
- Hand out Federalist/ Anti-Federalist chart to summarize differences between
- two groups. What actually happened?
- New York ratified the Constitution by a vote of 30-27 (the narrowest margin of victory of any state that met in 1787-88).
- The Anti-Federalists lost the battle, but won the war. The first 10 amendments to the Constitution—the Bill of Rights—were ratified in 1791. These addressed many of the issues that the Anti-Federalists raised in the conventions.