The correct answer to this open question is the following.
To what extent was any level of the government (national, state, or local) of 1786-87 able to carry out the functions for which government is established?
Well, the big issue in those years was that the Articles of Confederation -the first form of Constitution in the United States- left a weak central government that was very limited. It only could manage the post office and deal with the Native American Indian tribe's issues, among other minor things. The states remained sovereign and had more power. The states could collect money through taxation. And if the central government needed money, it had to ask for it from the states.
To what extent were the purpose(s) of government listed in the Preamble threatened by anarchy during this period?
The risk was major and the government realized this with the incidents of the Shay Rebellion in Massachusetts. The central government could not raise an army, and the Shay Rebellion was a tough lesson to learn.
That is why the delegates of the states participated in the Constitutional Convention of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 1787, to create a new form of government based in a new Constitution.
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conservative b is the answer
<u>Planters </u>
1. Had lots of money and slaves and grew cash crops
2. Products produced cotton
3. Owned 20 or more slaves
4. Lived in plantations that could be used to grow cash crops, which was all in the south.
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Yeoman Farmers
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1. Stayed to themselves. Grew livestock and crops that would keep them alive and would sell some of what they produced
2. Produce food and a little cotton
3. Owned 1 or 2 slaves
4. Lived in non slave territory north of the Ohio River, but must of them stayed in the south in the upcountry and the eastern slopes of the Appalachian from the Chesapeake through Georgia and the western slopes of the mountains in Kentucky and Tennessee, the pine covered hill country of northern Mississippi and Alabama.
<u> The Free African-American farmer
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The African American farmer is a rare breed in the United States. The loss of landownership and farming operations has contributed to the poverty of many rural communities in the South.
Farming is no longer a toiling-behind-a-mule-and-a-plow venture but rather a technical and managerial occupation—one which, despite many odds, some African-Americans choose.
