Term 2: Stages of Cooperation Flashcards
Name the first stage of cooperation and give an example.
Discuss common problems
Albany Congress
Name the second stage of cooperation and give an example.
Occasional Voluntary Cooperation
Stamp Act Congress
Name the third stage of cooperation and give an example.
Regular Voluntary Cooperation
2nd Continental Cooperation
Name the fourth stage of cooperation and give an example.
Legally Binding Cooperation
Constitution
What effect did the Stamp Act Boycott have on the Stamp Act?
Parliament repealed the law
Which group was responsible for creating the Articles of Confederation?
2nd Continental Congress
Who was most willing to work toward a strong federal government and was behind the Constitutional Congress?
The wealthy and educated leaders
Describe the major problem that led to the Constitutional Convention.
Failure of the Articles of Confederation to create a strong government
The people that encourages the Constitutional Convention favored what type of central government?
Strong Federal Government
Define Constitution.
A written plan of government
When the convention could not decide on how the amount of representation would be decided, they came up with a compromise. Describe the compromise.
There were two house of government, one that was based upon population, the other based on equality.
Southern States wanted slaves to count toward _________
Population
Northern states wanted slaves to count as property toward ____________
Taxation
To solve this problem, they came up with the three-fifths compromise. Describe this.
A slave counts as property but are three-fifths taxed
The southern states feared that if the federal government controlled trade they would end the ______ __________.
SLAVE TRADE
