Delegates
The oldest delegate at the Constitutional Convention.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The small state that chose not to show up because they did not feel like their voice would be heard.
What is Rhode Island?
This group wanted to continue slave trade.
What are the southern states?
The meeting where they wrote the constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The northern and southern states disagreed on this and agreed to wait 20 years.
What is slavery?
The president of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
The writer of the Great Compromise.
Who is Roger Sherman?
What is property?
A representative.
What is a delegate?
When the Constitutional Convention started.
When is May 1787?
The quiet, shy, most prepared delegate because he studied history, politics, and commerce (trade) before the Constitutional Convention.
Who is James Madison?
The plan that represented the small states that said every state should have an equal amount of voting power.
The reason why one set of states did not want the other set of states to count slaves towards their population.
What is the states that count slaves would have more voting power?
When two sides disagree and they find a solution in the middle where they both agree to give up something.
What is a compromise?
When the Constitutional Convention ended.
When is September 1787?
The delegates were the same in these ways.
What is the agreed that they needed to fix the old constitution (the Articles of Confederation), they wanted to keep things private, and some signed the Declaration of Independence?
The plan that represented the large states and said states with more people (or larger population) should have more voting power.
What is the Virginia Plan?
The amount of slaves that would count towards a population if there were a total of 5,000 slaves.
What is 3,000?
The place where the Constitutional Convention was held.
What is Independence Hall?
This is what the legislative branch (legislatures) is responsible for.
What is making laws?
The delegates were different in these ways.
What is age, the state they represented, knowledge, and experience?
The solution to the question of who (small or large states) should have more voting power and said states should have two houses (House and Senate) and a set number of representatives based on population and a an equal amount of senators.
What is the Great Compromise?
The solution to whether or not slaves should count towards the population that said each slave would count as 3/5 of a person.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
The first ten amendments that gave the American people the rights they deserved.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The reason why some delegates did not sign the constitution.
What is it gave the government too much power and didn't give enough rights to the people?