Part 3 Flashcards
Northwest Ordinance –
a. What did it do?
b. Importance?
c. What were the requirements of the new states?
a. Let people go out and make a settlement.
b. People could make new states.
c. Education in 16th section of each town. Must have 60,000 people to become a state.
The Constitutional Convention –
a. When?
b. Why was it held?
c. What were the arguments over how to balance?
a. May - September, 1787
b. To revise the Articles of Confederation
c. Representatives in Congress
New Jersey Plan –
a. Who introduced it?
b. It called for a ________ house legislature with ____ votes per state
c. This plan favored the small or large states?
a. William Patterson
b. Single, equal
c. Small
Virginia Plan –
a. Who introduced it?
b. It called for a _______ house legislature with ____ votes per state
c. This plan favored the small or large states?
a. James Madison
b. Double, proportional
c. Large
Great Compromise –
a. Who introduced it?
b. It solved the problem by creating a _______ house legislature
c. What did it call for?
a. Roger Sherman
b. Double
c. Each state gets equal representatives in Senate and Proportional representation in house. 3/5 compromise, commerce, slave trade, fugitive slave cause
3/5 Compromise –
a. Who introduced it?
b. In it, he proposed counting 3/5 of the _______ population for both representation and taxing purposes.
a. James Wilson
b. Slave
Magna Carta –
a. How did it influence the framers of the Constitution?
Wanted permission from Congress
Anti-Federalists –
a. Name two of their leaders
b. Why didn’t they approve of the Constitution?
a. Patrick Henry, George Mason
b. Didn’t want the central government to be too strong and wanted a bill of rights.
Federalists –
a. Name 3 of their leaders
b. Why did they approve the Constitution?
a. John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay
b. Wanted a strong national government
How did Patrick Henry feel about the Constitution?
Didn’t trust it. Said he smelled a rat.
Bill of rights –
a. What are they?
b. When were they added to the Constitution?
c. Why did some want them added?
a. Rights that protect individual citizens
b. 1791
c. Wanted their rights protected
Articles of Confederation –
a. Date written?
b. It was approved in _________(year).
c. It lasted until (year) __________
d. Under the Articles, Congress lacked _________
e. What could Congress do and not do?
f. Who had final authority under the Articles?
g. Why did people want to limit power of Congress?
a. November, 1777
b. March 1, 1781
c. 1787
d. Power
e. Could make treaties and alliances, maintain armed forces, coin money, declare war, operate post offices. Could not enforce taxes or laws
f. States
g. They feared it would become too powerful and that the people would never get a voice
