Constitutional Convention

Thomas Jefferson is known as the "father of the Constitution".

• True

• False

Everyone who attended the Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution.

• True

• False

The Constitution was easy to create and ratify.

• True

• False

All of the states attended the Constitutional Convention.

• True

• False

The Constitution is known as a "bundle of compromises".

• True

• False

Dividing the powers of government as the colonial charters did is called _________.

• separation of powers

• legislative government

• limited government

• government of petitions

This caused many Americans to agree to a strong national government.

• the Philadelphia convention

• the Northwest Ordinance

• Shay's Rebellion

• the Annapolis Convention

The only state that did not send a delegate to the Constitutional Convention was ____________________.

• Rhode Island

• Pennsylvania

• New York

• Massachusetts

This document suggested the legislative branch have a bicameral legislature.

• the Virginia Plan

• Interstate Commerce Clause

• the New Jersey Plan

• the Three-Fifths Compromise

To create the needed new government, the founders compromised on this issue.

• taxes

• the military draft

• the western territories

• slavery