Making a New Nation 5th Ch 6 L2A

What two sentences from the text support the conclusion that the process of creating the new Constitution involved broad national participation?

broad means - many different kinds

• “Shays’s Rebellion showed that there was much dissatisfaction with the Articles of Confederation.”

• “Members of the Continental Congress were not the only delegates at the convention.”

• “The delegates also included Revolutionary War veterans, governors, lawyers, plantation owners, merchants, and other influential people.”

• “They met in secret so that the delegates could speak freely and suggest ideas that might have hurt their reputations if the ideas became known.”

• “Although the convention’s purpose was to fix the Articles of Confederation, the delegates soon began to write a new constitution for a new government.”

How did James Madison change the purpose of the Constitutional Convention?

• He strongly supported the Virginia Plan put forward by the governor of Virginia, Edmund Randolph.

• He persuaded other delegates not to fix the Articles of Confederation, but instead to write a new Constitution.

• He supported George Washington to lead the Convention, while he concentrated on drafting the new Constitution.

• He argued that the Articles of Confederation needed to be changed to provide a much stronger national government.

Choose ALL of the sentences that help summarize the Virginia Plan.

• A two-part legislature makes the laws.

• Voters elect legislators of the lower house, who in turn choose the legislators of the upper house.

• Each state’s number of legislators is based on its population.

• The upper house selects the president and the judges for the national court.

• Each state would have only one delegate.

Key features of the Virginia Plan: A ​ (a)   -part legislature makes the ​ (b)   . Voters elect legislators of the ​ (c)   house, who in turn choose the legislators of the ​ (d)   house. Each state’s number of legislators is based on its ​ (e)   . The lower house selects the president and the judges for the national court.​

• two
• laws
• lower
• upper
• population
• three
• bigger

Which statement best explains the basic objection of the larger states to the New Jersey Plan?

• The larger states believed that the majority must control a democratic government.

• The larger states wanted to be able to veto laws of the smaller states that they opposed.

• The larger states wanted to take complete control of the governments of the smaller states.

• The larger states were more opposed to the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

What two sentences from the text support the correct response to the last question.

• “In the Virginia Plan, Congress had the ability to veto state laws and even take over a state’s government.”

• “Its legislature would have only one house, and each state would have only one delegate.”

• “They asked why a small state should have the same power as a large state.”

• “If the government of a nation was not controlled by the majority of its people, then how could the government be a democracy?”

• “Furthermore, these delegates saw the plan as being too similar to the Articles of Confederation.”