From Articles of Confederation to the Constitution Flashcards
The 3/5 Compromise resolved the issue of…
small and big populations representation in congress (an act that counted 3/5 of each state’s slaves for both taxation and representation purposes)
Delegates to the Constitutional Convention were intially supposed to…
revise the Articles of Confederation but all agreed that they needed a new set of laws= U.S. Constitution
Shay’s Rebellion grew out of…
Western Massachusetts farmers and veterans who were paying back money they burrowed to buy their farmers, high taxes, economic depresssion, fall of food prices, and rise in value of scarce hard money
The Virginia Plan proposed the following?
3 bracnhes of government (executive, legislature, judicial), provided a two house legislature (bi-cameral legislature) with number of seats a state held in each house based on state’s population (house and senate)
The New Jersey Plan propose the following?
Single house legislature (uni-cameral legislature) each state would have equal representation regardless of population (national assemble)
What was the name of the plan known as the Great Compromise?
The connecticut plan
The Northern states were more interested in?
that slaves should be considered a form of wealth, they should not be counted as people but should be taxed as property
Some Antifederalists agreed to support the Constitution after the Federalists added the…
Bill of Rights
The system of checks and balances is designed to ensure that…
No one branch takes too much power
The Antifederalists opposed the Constitution because they thought it…
favored few rather than many; they opposed establishment of a sound currency as being against the interests of majority of people, who were farmers and usually debters
In what city did the Constitutional Convention met in to write the Constitution?
Philadelphia
The “Father of the Constitution” is the title generally given to?
James Madison
The Antifederalists argued against the Constitution because they felt…
it favored the rich and powerful
