US Constitution Chapter 3

proposed the Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention

• George Washington

• Roger Sherman

• Benjamin

  Franklin

• Thomas

  Madison

concerned about power state governments would have if the Constitution was ratified

• ratification

• Federalist

• Anti-federalists

• amending

chaired the convention committee charged with resolving differences between large and small states

• Benjamin Franklin

• James Madison

• Edmund Randolph

• William Paterson

first president under the Constitution

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

delegate from New York who wrote many of The Federalist essays

• George Washington

• Federalists

• Edmund Randolph

• Alexander Hamilton

served as minister to France for the Confederation government

• Thomas Eddison

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• Federalists_

Which of the following provisions of the Constitution establishes a federal system of government?

• was not allowed to regulate commerce.

• Negotiation of Commercial treaties

• create a new constitution.

• Power is divided between the national and state governments.

Describe the major elements of the Virginia Plan and explain their importance at the Constitutional Convention

• Supporters of the new Constitution included large landowners who wanted the property protection an effective federal government could provide. Supporters also included merchants and artisans living in large coastal cities. The inability of the Confederation Congress to regulate trade had hit these citizens hard. They believed that an effective federal government which could impose taxes on foreign goods would help their businesses.

• After the Revolutionary War, British merchants flooded the United States with inexpensive British goods, driving many American artisans out of business. The states wanted to fight back by restricting British imports. Because the Congress could not impose trade restrictions that would apply to all states, the states imposed their own duties and taxes on imported goods. Often these rules varied from state to state

• The Virginia Plan was a detailed plan for a strong national government that would replace the Confederation Congress. The plan called for a national government with three branches: a legislative branch, an executive branch, and a judicial branch. The national legislature would be divided into two houses in which the states would be represented in proportion to their population. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention voted to base their deliberations on the Virginia Plan. A

• None of these

Problems in American relations with Britain and Spain following the Revolutionary War were primarily caused by which of the following?

• adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution.

• to explain how the Constitution worked and why it was neede

• the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

• large states and small states over representation in Congress.

The real issue for opponents of the Constitution was whether the national government.

• Federalists.

• or state governments would be supreme.

• Power is divided between the national and state governments.

• Western farmers far from the coast