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What came before the Constitution?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
True or false: George Washington was the President at the Constitutional Convention.
False--no president under the Articles
Describe the delegates at the Constitutional Convention.
"Well-fed, well-read, well-bred, and well-wed"
White, male, landowners
What groups of people were not represented at the Constitutional Convention? Name at least 2.
The 3/5ths Compromise did not give enslaved people the power to vote, but rather gave the Southern states WHAT?
More representatives in government.
The Constitutional Convention solved the problem of representation in government with a bicameral legislature. What are the two houses of Congress?
The North did not fight the 3/5ths Compromise because they disliked slavery. Why did the North not want to include enslaved people in the population?
They did not want the Southern states to be equal to the North in population.
What is the full name of the first Black woman to publish a book in the United States?
Phillis Wheatley (Peters)!
Why did the Articles of Confederation fail so hard that the Constitutional Convention was held?
The Articles wanted state power, and small national government. Therefore, the US was more like a messy group of a states than a country.
Taxes for a military!
Define "equal representation" from the Constitutional Convention.
States had one vote each, regardless of the size of the state.
States get votes based on the size of their state and population.