Chapter 8

Supporters of the Virginia Plan and supporters of the New Jersey Plan ultimately agreed on the _______________

• The Great Compromise
• The Virginia Plan
• The New Jersey

The smaller states wanted  to base the national government on the 

• Virginia Plan
• New Jersey Plan
• Articles of Confederation
• Three-fifths Compromise

Which of the following decided how slaves would be counted in determining a state's population?

• The Virginia Plan
• The New Jersey Plan
• The Great Compromise
• The Three-fifths Compromise

_______________________ such as Alexander Hamilton and James Madison supported the ratification of the Constitution.

• Antifederalists
• Federalists

Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government could not

• issue money
• collect taxes
• sign treaties
• declare war

Shays's Rebellion was an uprising by

• state militias
• Massachusetts farmers
• southern slaveholders
• western settlers

document adopted in 1777, and approved by the states in 1781, that outlined the form of government for the new United States

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Treaty of Paris, 1783

Those who opposed, or were against, the Constitution.

• Anti-federalist

• Federalists

This compromise created 3 branches of government and 2 houses of Congress

• 3/5 Compromise

• Great Compromise

• Commerce Compromise

This compromise created the law that 3/5 of the slave population would be counted for representation in Congress.

• Great Compromise

• 3/5 Compromise

• Slave Trade Compromise