Review: Constitutional Convention

Why were the Articles of Confederation considered too weak?

• It gave the Federal Government too much power.

• It gave the State Governments too much power.

• It still gave Britain power in the United States.

• It didn't eat its vegetables.

Under the Articles of Confederation, what was the National Government unable to do?

• Pay Soldiers

• Protect itself from invasion.

• Make British soldiers leave frontier forts.

• Make states pay desperately needed taxes.

Under the Articles of Confederation, states were responsible for raising their own militas.

• True

• False

Federalists argued for a stronger ________________ government that could control the states.

What type of government did Anti-Federalist support?

• Federal government should control everything.

• States should be able to make their own laws and decisions.

• States shouldn't be able to make their own laws and decisions.

• Monarchy

Delegates from all the states talked about how to create a Federal Government that would be a _______________ between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists.

Which government style do you prefer?

Federalist (National government controls states)

Anti-Federalist's (States make own laws and decisions)

• Federalist

• Anti-Federalist

A profitable network of business across the Atlantic Ocean where goods and slaves were traded between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

• Slavery

• Slave Trade

• Abolition

• Commercial Trade

The Virginia Plan: States with large populations wanted the number of representatives to be based on __________________

• a state's population

• equal representation

The New Jersey Plan: States with smaller populations wanted representation in congress to be _______________?

• be based on a state's population

• be based on equal representation.