ECONOMIC CRISIS
This is the term for when the economy slows down, jobs are hard to find, and people don't have enough money.
What is an economic depression?
This former Revolutionary War officer led the farmers' rebellion in Massachusetts in 1786.
Who is Daniel Shays?
This person proposed the Virginia Plan at the Constitutional Convention.
Who is James Madison?
This is the other name for the agreement that balanced the interests of large and small states.
What is the Great Compromise?
This is the fraction that enslaved people counted as under the Three-Fifths Compromise.
What is three-fifths of a person?
This person presided over the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
These three major problems caused the American economy to collapse after the Revolutionary War.
What are war damage, trade problems with Britain, and worthless money?
This is what the rebelling farmers were trying to stop courts from doing.
What is taking farmers' land (for unpaid debts)?
Under the Virginia Plan, representation in the legislature would be based on this.
What is population?
In the House of Representatives, representation is based on this.
What is population?
The Three-Fifths Compromise was used to determine these two things.
What are representation and taxation?
This is how many delegates attended the Constitutional Convention.
What is 55 delegates?
This is what happened to farmers who couldn't pay their taxes during the economic crisis.
What is their land was seized and/or they were jailed for unpaid bills?
Shays and his followers marched toward this type of military building in Springfield.
What is a federal arsenal?
The New Jersey Plan kept this feature from the Articles of Confederation regarding state voting power.
What is each state had one vote?
This is how many senators each state gets in the Senate.
What is two senators?
This is the term for when individual enslaved people were freed by their owners.
What is manumission?
The Constitutional Convention met in this city in 1787.
What is Philadelphia?
Britain stopped Americans from trading with this region, which was one of their best markets.
What is the West Indies?
This is how Shays's Rebellion ended.
What is state soldiers fired on the rebels, several were killed, and the rebellion ended?
These types of states supported the Virginia Plan because they would have more power.
What are large states?
The Great Compromise created a legislature with this many houses.
What is two houses (bicameral)?
Congress was prohibited from banning the slave trade until this year.
What is 1808?
Meetings were held in secret for this reason.
What is so delegates could speak freely?
These violent protests happened in some cities because food became so expensive people couldn't afford to eat.
What are food riots?
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had different views on the rebellion. Washington worried about this, while Jefferson believed rebellion reminded leaders of this.
What is (Washington worried) people could not govern themselves without structure, and (Jefferson believed) leaders served the people?
The New Jersey Plan gave Congress these two new important powers that it lacked under the Articles.
What are the powers to tax and regulate trade?
This is why the compromise was necessary and what would have happened without it.
What is to avoid failure of the convention / to balance the interests of large and small states / to prevent states from walking out?
This is the term for when enslaved people were freed slowly over time, not immediately, which some Northern states began doing.
What is gradual emancipation?
These three groups of people were NOT represented at the Constitutional Convention.
Who are women, Native Americans, and African Americans?