He believed that all white men had a right to vote
This meant that if you weren't rich you could vote now
This Still excluded African-Americans and women
The Dutch settled and created the colony of New Netherlands. The port city in the area was known as New Amsterdam. When the English took over they changed the name to New York and New York City, to sound more English.
The Constitutional Convention was called because the federal government established by the Articles of Confederation was considered to be too weak to effectively deal with the young nation's issues. Officially, the purpose of the convention was to revise the Articles of Confederation. Many feel that this was a drastic understatement, and that the real goal of many of its key proponents was to replace the Articles of Confederation and create a strong federal government.
