Compromises
This compromise settled the debate over how to count enslaved people towards a state's total population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise
This man is considered the "Father of the Constitution".
Who is James Madison.
True or False: Shays' Rebellion successfully shut down all of the courts in Massachusetts.
False: they were stopped before they could do this.
The Northwest Ordinance set up government for what territory?
What is the Northwest Territory.
Another word for ratify is.....
Approve
This compromised combined the New Jersey and the Virginia plans in the final draft of the Constitution.
What is the Great Compromise. Or the Connecticut Compromise if you're fancy.
James Madison and Alexander Hamilton were both a part of what Constitution-supporting group?
Who are the Federalists.
What is one reason that Shays and other farmers could not pay their debts?
1. The country was in an economic depression.
2. Those that had been soldiers had not been paid.
Besides setting up rules about slavery, what is one other thing that the Northwest Ordinance also established?
Either answer below is correct:
1. It guaranteed residents basic rights.
2. It spelled out a pathway for territories to become states.
True or False: The Founding Fathers created a true democracy when they write the Constitution.
False- it was more of a republic.
This compromise made it so that the people had less direct say in electing the president. It made the government less of a direct democracy and more of a republic.
What is the Electoral College.
The men that supported ratifying the Constitution write this to help convince others to feel the same.
What are the Federalist Papers.
Why did Daniel Shays and other farmers go after the courts?
Shays and Co could not pay their debts and the courts were taking away their lands to pay the debts. Therefore Shays and the other farmers decided that if the courts were closed, then they couldn't take the land!
True or False: The Northwest Ordinance outlawed slavery in the Northwest Territory.
True!
The three branches of the U.S. government are:
1. Legislative
2. Executive
3. Judicial
What is one SPECIFIC way that the New Jersey Plan was different than the Virginia Plan?
Any of the following are correct:
1. The NJ Plan had one house, the VA Plan had two.
2. In the NJ Plan, representation was equal for all states. In the VA Plan, representation was based on population.
This was the Anti-Federalists main complaint about the Constitution?
How was the Rebellion stopped?
By a private militia.
True or False: The Northwest Ordinance freed all enslaved people already residing the Northwest territory.
False- those that already held people in bondage when the Northwest Ordinance was passed remained as slaves.
How many votes in the Electoral College does each state get?
The number of the members they have in the House of Representatives + 2
Why did the North allow the Three-Fifths Compromise to happen?
The Constitution would not have been ratified without this concession to the South. The states in the North thought it was worth making this deal in order to insure that the new Constitution was adopted and they weren't stuck with the Articles of Confederation.
The Constitutional Convention was partially held in Philadelphia so that this influential Founding Father could attend and lend his reputation to the event.
Who is Benjamin Franklin.
What did Shays' Rebellion prove about the government under the Articles of Confederation?
That it was too weak to be effective- the Federal government couldn't stop the Rebellion or solve the problems that caused it.
True or False: The Northwest Ordinance outlawed the international slave trade.
False: This happened in 1808, twenty years after the ratification of the Constitution.
Who was the President of the Constitutional Convention?