Constitutional Convention Test
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| show | Philadelphia
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| What was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention? | show 🗑
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| Why did Americans feel that the Articles of Confederation needed to be changed? | show 🗑
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| What was Shays Rebellion? | show 🗑
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| show | Shays Rebellion
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| show | James Madison
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| Why did some people want a stronger government? | show 🗑
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| What leader from Virginia disagreed with James Madison and wanted to keep the Articles as they were? | show 🗑
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| 1787 all states except which one sent delegates to the convention in Philadelphia to fix the Articles. | show 🗑
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| 55 Delegates from 12 states gathered at the Pennsylvania State House to revise what? | show 🗑
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| Who did the 55 delegates name as the president of the Constitutional Convention? | show 🗑
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| show | So that the delegates could speak freely and make good decisions.
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| Who asked for the Articles of Confederation to be replaced and for a new plan of government to be written? | show 🗑
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| What is the name of the system that says that the national and state governments share power? | show 🗑
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| show | The Constitution
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| What is it called when the people choose representatives to run the government? | show 🗑
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| What was the major disagreement between the delegates during the discussions? | show 🗑
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| Congress has two parts or houses, and the number of representatives would be based upon each state's population. | show 🗑
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| Which plan favored large states? | show 🗑
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| show | William Patterson of New Jersey
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| show | The New Jersey Plan which gave small states the same number of representatives as large states.
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| show | to give up some of what one wanted.
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| show | The Connecticut Compromise.
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| show | The Connecticut Compromise.
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| An idea for a new law. | show 🗑
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| Both houses had to approve a bill before it could become what? | show 🗑
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| Only the house in which representation was based on population could propose what? | show 🗑
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| show | Delegates agreed to count 3/5ths of the slaves towards the number of representatives.
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| Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania called spoke out against what? | show 🗑
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| After 1808 Congress banned what kind of trade with other countries? | show 🗑
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| show | The Great Compromise
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| Delegates worked together to create the US Constitution but who expressed those ideas in the written Constitution? | show 🗑
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