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Constitutional Convention
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention? | The delegates were meeting to fix the Articles of Confederation. |
| Why did Americans feel that the Articles of Confederation needed to be changed? | Because there was no national army to protect the country as a whole. |
| What was Shays Rebellion? | A mob of farmers unhappy about paying too much in taxes tried to take over the Massachusetts arsenal. |
| What event made many Americans feel that their national government could not keep order or protect them? | Shays Rebellion |
| What leader from Virginia argued that the country needed a stronger national government? | James Madison |
| Why did some people want a stronger government? | 1) No single national leader. 2) To pass any law, nine states had to agree. 3) There was no national court system to settle disputes. |
| What leader from Virginia disagreed with James Madison and wanted to keep the Articles as they were? | Patrick Henry |
| In 1787 all states except which one sent delegates to the convention in Philadelphia to fix the Articles? | Rhode Island |
| 55 Delegates from 12 states gathered at the Pennsylvania State House to revise what? | The Articles. |
| Who did the 55 delegates name as the president of the Constitutional Convention? | George Washington |
| Why were the discussions about the changes to the articles kept secret? | So that the delegates could speak freely and make good decisions. |
| Who asked for the Articles of Confederation to be replaced and for a new plan of government to be written? | Edmund Randolph |
| What is the name of the system that says that the national and state governments share power? | Federal system |
| What document became the supreme law of the land? | The Constitution |
| What is it called when the people choose representatives to run the government? | A republic |
| What was the major disagreement between the delegates during the discussions? | There were disagreements between the delegates about how each state would be represented in the new Congress. |
| What is the name of the plan in which Congress has two parts or houses, and the number of representatives would be based upon each state's population? | Virginia Plan |
| Where did the Constitutional Convention take place? | Philadelphia |
| Which plan favored large states? | The Virginia Plan |
| Who said The Virginia Plan "strikes at the existence of the lesser states." | William Patterson of New Jersey |
| What was the name of the plan that purposed that the new Congress have one house in which each state would be equally represented? | The New Jersey Plan which gave small states the same number of representatives as large states. |
| Compromise means | to give up some of what one wanted. |
| The Great Compromise was led by Roger Sherman of Connecticut. This became known as what? | The Connecticut Compromise |
| This plan was based on a two house Congress. One house representation was based on population. The other house representation was equally represented. | The Connecticut Compromise |
| An idea for a new law is called a _____________________. | Bill |
| Both houses had to approve a bill before it could become what? | Law |
| Only the house in which representation was based on population could propose what? | Tax Bills |
| What was the Three-Fifths Compromise? | Delegates agreed to count 3/5ths of the slaves towards the number of representatives. |
| Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania called spoke out against what? | Slavery and he called it "the curse of heaven on the states where it prevailed." |
| After 1808 Congress banned what kind of trade with other countries? | Slave Trade |
| What was the name of the document that resolved conflicts over representation in the government? | The Great Compromise |
| Delegates worked together to create the US Constitution but who expressed those ideas in the written Constitution? | Gouverneur Morris |
| A political community that occupies a definite territory and has an organized government with the power to make an enforce laws without approval from any higher authority. | A State |
| Any sizeable group of people who are united by common bonds of race, language, custom, tradition, and sometimes, religion. | A Nation |
| States where the population shares a general political and social consensus or agreement about basic beliefs have the most ----STABLE or INSTABLE---government. Choose one. | Stable |
| A state has established boundaries is called ___________. | A territory |
| The key characteristic of a state is its __________________ or ability to self govern | Sovereignty |
| The institution through which the state maintains social order, provides public services, and enforces decisions that are binding on all people living within the state. | A Government |
| Theory in which some scholars believe that the state evolved from the family of government origin. | Evolutionary Theory |
| Government emerged when all the people of an area were brought under the authority of one person or group is the theory of _________________________. | Force Theory |
| Ratified means | approved |
| Unicameral means | Single chamber |
| Ceded means | yielded |
| Ordinances are another name for _________________. | Laws |
| Interstate Commerce | trade among the states |
| Extralegal | not sanctioned (allowed) by law |
| Anarchy | A system of government in which the power to rule is in the hands of a single individual |
| This plan called for a strong national legislature with two chambers the lower one to be chosen by the people and the upper chamber to be chosen by the lower. A strong national executive and judiciary to be chosen by the national legislature. | Virginia Plan |
| This plan for government is based on keeping the major features of the Articles of Confederation a unicameral legislature with one vote for each state. | New Jersey Plan |
| This plan has a house of representatives with state representation based upon population. | Connecticut Compromise |
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