Creating the Constitution

Who was asked to be president of the Constitutional Convention, and was the first to sign the Constitution?

• Benjamin Franklin
• George Washington
• Alexander Hamilton
• John Adams

The Constitutional Convention was ORIGINALLY organized to...

• write the Treaty of Paris.
• get all the signers of the Declaration together to celebrate.
• decide who would fight Daniel Shay.
• improve the Articles of Confederation.

What document replaced the Articles of Confederation and established a new national government? 

• The Declaration of Independence 
• The Constitution 
• The Magna Carta 
• The English Bill of Rights 

The issue of counting enslaved people for representation was the reason for the...

• Great Compromise

• One-Third Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Slave Compromise

The idea that Representation should be based on a states' population was the 

• New Jersey plan
• Virginia plan
• Connecticut plan
• Commerce Compromise

One major problem with the Articles of Confederation was that Congress could not ______ the citizens to raise money

• tax

• ask

• demand

• force

Shay's Rebellion started as a protest against

• unfair taxes and farmer debt
• the death penalty
• no judicial system
• debtors' prisons

Who is the "Father of the Constitution?"

• Benjamin Franklin
• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison

Small states favored the plan by William Patterson called the

• New Jersey Plan
• Three-Fifths Compromise
• Virginia Plan
• Georgia Plan

The delegates kept their discussions secret so as to

• not cause a panic
• keep all the power to themselves
• ensure that everyone would speak their minds freely