Compromise or Chaos
This compromise counted enslaved people as part of the population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This early American government gave most of the power to the states
What are the Articles of Confederation
What was the original purpose of the Constitutional Convention?
What is to REVISE the Articles of Confederation
Large states supported this plan.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This group ultimately elects the president.
What is the Electoral College?
Congress could not interfere with the slave trade for this many years.
What is 20 years?
Under the Articles, Congress could NOT do this, causing money shortages.
What is collect taxes
Who is James Madison
This plan won support from small states thanks to its system of equal representation.
What is the New Jersey Plan
Delegates decided the president would serve this long.
This clause required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their enslavers.
What is the Fugitive Slave Clause?
Small farmers lost their farms and rebelled in this event led by a war veteran.
What was Shays Rebellion
This state refused to attend the Convention, fearing a strong national government.
What is Rhode Island?
The Virginia Plan & New Jersey Plan agreed on one thing.
What is 3 branches of government?
The ninth state to ratify it in June 1788
What is New Hampshire?
The number of members of _____ are affected by state population.
What is the House of Representatives?
Congress couldn’t stop Shays’ Rebellion because the Articles did NOT allow the government to have this.
What was a National Army
All delegates agreed government should protect natural rights and get power from this source.
S.C & GA objected ending the slave trade for this reason.
What is "their economy depended on the constant supply of new enslaved people?"
To ratify the new Constitution, this many states needed to approve it.
What is 9 states?
The greatest concern of the opponents of the Constitution was this.
What is giving up state power to form a stronger national government?
Why is Shays’ Rebellion significant?
What is “It led to the Constitutional Convention”?
The greatest challenge for the delegates at the Convention was this...
What is the balancing the interest of large and small states?
Created the Great Compromise which combined the Virginia Plan & New Jersey Plan
Who is Roger Sherman
These two groups argued over ratification. One supporting a strong central government, the other fearing it
Who are the Federalists and Anti-Federalists