Ch.3 - L.2 - S.2: "Compromising for a Constitution"

Multiple Choice

Why did the delegates want a new plan instead of making changes to the Articles of Confederation?

• They believed the new tax plan was sufficient for their needs.

• The delegates did not want to make any major changes to the government.

• Many Americans felt that the Confederation government was too weak to deal with the nation’s problems.

• The delegates thought the Articles gave too much power to the federal government.

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Which proposed plan for government favored states with large populations?

Open Ended

Give an example of a time in your life, you had to make a compromise.

Multiple Choice

In the Great Compromise, what did small states and large states give up?

• Small states gained more power in the Senate; large states gained more power in the House.
• Small states gave up representation in both chambers; large states kept equal representation in the House.
• Small states and large states both kept equal representation in the House and Senate.
• Small states gave up equal representation in the House; large states gave up equal representation in the Senate.

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Compromise shows that most free Americans viewed ​

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people as ​

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rather than as human beings entitled to all the ​

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promised in the Constitution.

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rights

property

Three-Fifths

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laws

free

enslaved

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​ Smaller states feared the ​

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Plan because representation in ​

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would be based on a state’s ​

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. The smaller states feared their interests would be ​

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Under the plan known as the ​

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, both large and small states thought it was ​

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. Congress would have ​

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: a Senate, where each state would have ​

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representation, and a House of Representatives, where the number of representatives would be ​

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two houses

equal

based upon a state’s population

one house

three houses

unequal

based on how much money the state makes 

Great Compromise

Three Fifths Compromise

acceptable

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Options (8)

Most slaves lived in the South

Most slaves lived in the North

Slaves did not have the right to vote though.

Only male slaves had the right to vote.

Counting slaves as representatives would give southern states more representatives.

Counting slaves as representatives would give southern states less representatives.

If slaves counted toward papulation, southern states would have more power in Congress.

If slaves did not count toward papulation, southern states would have more power in Congress.

At the time of the Constitutional Convention, Southern states wanted to include enslaved African Americans in population counts. Why did Northern states oppose the measure?

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False

Match

Match the following trade issues AND compromises between the Northern and Southern states.

• Congress should regulate foreign trade and trade between states

• Congress would use this power to tax exports. Southern economy depends on exports. Congress might try to stop traders from bringing more slaves into the South.

• that Congress cannot tax exports, nor interfere with the slave trade until 1808

• that Congress may regulate trade between states and with other countries.

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