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This plan suggested that states with larger populations should have more representatives in Congress.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This delegate supported the idea that representatives should be elected directly by the people.
Who is James Madison?
The president would serve this length of time in office.
What is four years?
This plan suggested that each state should have the same number of representatives.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This earlier government document required all states to agree before it could be amended.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This movement worked to end slavery.
What is the abolition movement?
This document replaced the Articles of Confederation and established a stronger national government.
What is the United States Constitution?
This agreement created two houses of Congress: the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is the Great Compromise?
According to the Constitution, the federal government can raise this to pay for government services.
What are taxes?
This Founding Father argued that a strong national government would help promote economic growth.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
One major goal of supporters of the Constitution was to create this type of central government.
What is a strong central government?
This meeting in 1787 brought delegates together in Philadelphia to fix problems with the government.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
Delegates met in this city to write the new Constitution.
What is Philadelphia?
This formerly enslaved man wrote an autobiography that helped people understand the horrors of slavery.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
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Small states supported this plan that proposed equal representation for each state.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
Changing the Constitution is called this.
What is amending the Constitution?
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This problem with the Articles of Confederation made it nearly impossible to amend the government.
What is all thirteen states had to agree to approve an amendment?
Delegates debated how many presidents the United States should have because they feared giving all this to one person.
What is too much power?
This 1787 meeting brought delegates together to create a new plan of government for the United States, replacing the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The Articles of Confederation created this kind of national government, giving most power to the states and leaving the federal government too weak to solve problems.
What is a weak central government?
This 1786–1787 uprising of Massachusetts farmers protesting high taxes and debt showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This compromise allowed Congress to eventually abolish the slave trade after a set period of time.
What is the Slave Trade Compromise?
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