Constitutional Convention

Question 1

Problems Facing the Young Nation 1

Answer 1

Just like the British in the French & Indian War, the USA faced a very high debt after the Revolutionary War

Question 1

Problems Facing the Young Nation 2

Answer 1

The national government could not impose taxes, so the individual states placed high taxes on their citizens.
This caused many businesses to fail, and many people lost their property because they could not pay back their loans.

Question 2

Shays’ Rebellion 1

Answer 2

Daniel Shays lost his farm in Massachusetts and then raised an army that marched through the countryside. They tried to prevent farms from being seized by the courts.

Question 3

Shays’ Rebellion 2

Answer 3

The national government had a very difficult time stopping the rebellion, and people began to think that the government was too weak to protect them.

Question 4

Constitutional Convention 1787
1

Answer 4

Delegates from 12 states meet in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation. They quickly decide to throw out the Articles and start over.

Question 5

Constitutional Convention 1787
2

Answer 5

They made George Washington the head of the convention and decided to keep everything they were doing secret during the convention.

Question 6

Virginia Plan:

Answer 6

supported by states with a large population
1. Bicameral legislature
2. Representation based on population: large states have more representatives and more power.

Question 7

New Jersey Plan

Answer 7

supported by states with a small population
1. Unicameral Legislature
2. Equal Representation: 1 state, 1 vote

Question 8

Great Compromise/Connecticut Compromise

Answer 8

1. Bicameral Legislature
   
   2. Senate with equal representation🡪 2 per state
   3. House of Representatives with representation based on population

Question 9

Three-fifths Compromise

Answer 9

1. Southern states want slaves to be counted as part of their population. Northern states opposed to this because it makes slave states more powerful
   
   2. Decide that three out of every five slaves will count in a state’s population

Question 10

Trade/Commerce Compromise 1

Answer 10

1. Northern states want the national government to be able to regulate trade. Southern states concerned that this regulation will include taxes on exports and laws against the slave trade

Question 11

Trade/Commerce Compromise 2

Answer 11

2. National government given the power to regulate trade, but cannot put a tax on exports. Also cannot pass new laws about the slave trade for 20 years.

Question 12

Who will choose the President?

Answer 12

1. Constitution writers do not trust regular people to make a good choice about the Presidency
   Answer to the question with the Electoral College

Question 13

Electoral College

Answer 13

State legislatures choose electors who meet together to decide the President.
Constitutionally established body created for the sole purpose of choosing the president and vice president.

Question 14

Ratification of the New Constitution

Answer 14

Ratify = Approve
¾ of states (9 out of 13) must ratify the Constitution before it will take effect

Question 15

Federalists

Answer 15

Group that supports ratification. Named for the concept of Federalism 🡪 a system of government where the national & state governments share power

Question 16

Anti-Federalists

Answer 16

Group that opposes the Constitution. Anti-Federalists believe the Constitution makes the national government too powerful and does not adequately protect citizens.

Question 17

Finally Ratified…

Answer 17

After a year of arguing, the Federalists agree to add a Bill of Rights to the Constitution if the Anti-Federalists will support ratification

Question 18

When did New Hampshire ratify the constitution

Answer 18

July 21, 1788
New Hampshire becomes the 9th state to ratify the Constitution and it becomes the official plan of government for the USA.

Question 19

When did North Carolina ratify the constitution

Answer 19

NC did not ratify until over a year later. We were the next to last of the original states to ratify.

Question 20

Shays Rebellion

Answer 20

A six-month rebellion in which more than 1,000 armed farmers attacked a federal arsenal (an establishment for the manufacture or storage of arms and military equipment.) to protest the foreclosure of farms in the western part of the state and was a major concern at the constitutional convention

Question 21

What did the Shay Rebellion make the nation’s leaders realize

Answer 21

The necessity of a strong central government as Shay’s rebellion frightened the politicians and exposed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation

Question 22

James Madison persuaded the other delegates to rewrite the Articles of Confederation into what

Answer 22

The constitution

Question 23

Unicameral

Answer 23

Consisting of one house

Question 24

Bicameral legislature

Answer 24

Consisting of two legislature houses. the United States has a bicameral legislature, its two houses are the House of Representatives and the Senate