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Constitutional Compromise

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  • What main question did delegates debate after the Great Compromise?
    Whether the president should serve for life
    How slaves should be counted for representation in House
    Whether to allow women to vote
    How many senators each state should have
  • Which statement best describes the delegates as a group?
    experienced, educated White men with political backgrounds
    They were mostly young farmers with little political experi
    They included women and people of color.
    They were primarily foreign leaders invited to advise the Un
  • How did the Senate represent the states under the Great Compromise?
    Senators were appointed by the president.
    states would have 2 senators elected by state legislatures
    Only large states would have senators.
    Each state's number of senators depended on its population.
  • What was the main feature of the House of Representatives under the Great Compromise?
    Representation would be based on each state's population.
    Representatives would be chosen only by state governors.
    Each state would have two representatives.
    Each state would have one representative regardless of size.
  • What surprising action did the delegates take after debating the Virginia Plan?
    They voted to make James Madison king.
    They postponed all decisions until the next year
    They decided to keep the Articles of Confederation.
    They agreed to write a completely new Constitution.
  • Which state did NOT send delegates to the convention?
    Pennsylvania
    Rhode Island
    New York
    Virginia
  • What position did most Northern delegates take about counting enslaved people?
    counted only as property that could be taxed, but not people
    They should be given immediate citizenship and right to vote
    excluded from both representation and taxation
    They should be counted fully as citizens for representation.
  • Why did Southern delegates want enslaved people counted in the population totals?
    Because they believed enslaved people should vote
    To reduce their tax burden
    To increase the South’s representatives in the House
    To lower the number of representatives from the South
  • Which feature was part of the Virginia Plan?
    No national judiciary
    A monarch to lead the executive branch
    A 3 part government with a two-house (bicameral) Congress
    A one-house legislature with equal votes for each state
  • hy was the Great Compromise important for the Constitutional Convention?
    combined features of 2 plans and saved the Constitution
    It replaced the idea of representing the people with full s
    It allowed the convention to immediately adjourn (end)
    It gave all the power to the executive branch
  • What was one direct outcome of Shays’ Rebellion for the national government?
    Congress immediately created a standing national army
    The Constitution was ratified the next month
    Congressional convention in Philadelphia in 1787--update AoC
    States banned paper money nationwide
  • What was one major hardship that led Massachusetts farmers to rebel?
    Farmers were forced to serve in the army again
    Farmers had to sell property or be jailed for unpaid debts
    Foreign soldiers were occupying their farms
    A new law banning farming west of the Appalachians
  • What major issue divided the delegates during the convention?
    Whether to immediately declare war on Britain
    Whether Benjamin Franklin should be king
    Whether to keep the Articles of Confederation unchanged
    How much power the national government should have versus th
  • What key question divided the framers?
    Whether to allow foreign leaders to vote in elections
    Whether to ban slavery in all states immediately
    government’s power: from states or directly from the people?
    Whether the United States should go to war with Britain
  • According to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, when could a territory apply to become a state?
    When it had 500 free adult males
    When it had 60,000 people
    As soon as settlers arrived
    When it had 5,000 people total
  • Under the Land Ordinance of 1785, how was each township organized?
    Into territories governed by a governor
    Into 36 sections of 640 acres each, with one section for pub
    Into 50 sections sold only to wealthy landowners
    Into 12 sections of 100 acres each
  • Why was George Washington chosen president of the convention?
    He wrote the Constitution.
    He was the only delegate from Virginia.
    He was admired & respected as the former commander in chief
    He promised to become the first president of the United Stat
  • Why did larger states favor the Virginia Plan?
    It gave each state the same number of representatives.
    Big states got more representatives and influence-population
    It required all laws to be approved by state governors.
    It eliminated the legislative branch.
  • What action did Daniel Shays and his followers take in early 1787?
    They marched on the arsenal at Springfield to take weapons
    They negotiated a loan from foreign banks
    They met with Congress to demand lower taxes
    They voted to form a new state government
  • When and where did the Constitutional Convention first meet?
    September 17, 1787, at Federal Hall
    July 4, 1776, at Carpenter’s Hall
    May 25, 1789, in Independence Hall
    May 25, 1787, in East Room of the Pennsylvania State House
  • Why did the new nation face serious money problems after the war?
    States refused to collect taxes
    Foreign countries refused to trade with the U.S.
    The national bank lost all its funds
    Paper money became worthless & Congress had no gold/silver
  • How did the New Jersey Plan differ from the Virginia Plan?
    1 part legislature with equal votes for each state
    bicameral legislature with representation based-population
    It proposed 3 branches of government while Virginia wanted 2
    only large states could send delegates to Congress
  • Why did the delegates adopt a rule of secrecy?
    To keep Washington’s notes private
    speak freely without public alarm until their work was done
    To allow them to revise the Declaration of Independence
    To prevent foreign spies from learning their plans
  • What problem showed a major weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
    States argued with each other over borders and taxes. (Corre
    The president had too much power.
    Foreign countries controlled U.S. land
    Congress could not pass any laws.
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