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This document was the first document before constitution
Big State plan with 3 branches of government and a bicameral legislature. Representation in Congress would be based on population.
What was the Virginia Plan?
In what house of our national legislature, called Congress, does each state have equal representation?
Senate
A Compromise that made each slave count for 3/5 of a person when the population was being counted.
What was the 3/5 compromise?
Supported the creation of the constitution
Federalist
What document replaced the Articles of Confederation and established a new national government?
The Constitution
Small State plan with equal representation for each state. It had the power to tax and regulate trade. It also had an executive committee to enforce the laws.
What was the New Jersey plan?
A system where each branch of government keeps the other branches from having too much power.
Checks & Balances
Agreeing not to tax exports is part of the
Commerce Compromise
Biggest fear of the anti-federalist
The national government would be too strong and violate citizens' rights
One major problem with the Articles is that Congress could not ______ the citizens to raise money
Tax
A Compromise that made each slave count for 3/5 of a person when the population was being counted.
What was the 3/5 compromise?
What was the biggest reason why Americans created such a weak national government after the American Revolution?
They didn't want the government to be too powerful and violate their rights like the British government did.
Agreeing not to interfere with the slave trade for 20 years is part of the
Commerce Compromise
What was the Anti-Federalists biggest problem with the new Constitution?
There was no Bill of Rights
Why was it so difficult to pass laws under the Articles of confederation?
9 of the 13 states had to agree
How was the dispute about representation between big states and small states resolved?
They created a bicameral legislature and they used equal representation for one and population for the other.
Which of the following is something the Founding Fathers added to the Constitution to fix a weakness in the Articles of Confederation?
The Founding Fathers created three branches with a system of checks and balances
Bill of Rights
Name one famous Federalist
Madison, Hamilton
Why did the Founding fathers decide to get rid of the Articles of Confederation?
It was too weak to work
Created a two house legislature
The Great Compromise
At the second continental congress, what did the government decide to do?
Scrap the whole Articles of Confederation and created the constitution
Created a two house legislature
The Great Compromise
A political party that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government
Anti-federalist