Constitutional Convention, Bill of Rights Review

The Articles of Confederation were eventually unsuccessful because...

• the central government was too powerful.

• the states could not agree who should be president.

• the federal (national) government couldn't raise taxes, regulate trade between states, or draft soldiers into the military

• the founders realized that they would rather join Britain again.

Which parts of the Virginia Plan were eventually included in the Great Compromise?

• Checks and balances, bicameral legislature, and representation by population in Congress

• The 3/5 Compromise and Fugitive Slave Law

• Equal representation in Congress and U.S. law being supreme law over the states

• Bill of Rights

The purpose of the Great Compromise was to...

• ensure that both the large and small states could agree to the way to be represented in the legislature

• allow Southern, larger states more power.

• make runaway enslaved persons have to return to the South.

• allow the Constitution to fail and to go back to the Articles of Confederation.

Created a strong federal government

• The Virginia Plan

• The New Jersey Plan

The Constitution created a "bicameral" Congress. What does this mean?

• That Congress has 2 more powers than the judicial or executive branches

• That Congress has only 2 powers

• That Congress has 2 houses - House of Representatives and the Senate

• That Congress has 2 representatives from every state

Why did the Northern "free" states agree to the Three-Fifths Compromise and the Fugitive Slave law?

• They thought it was fair to give the South some representation for their enslaved people.

• It didn't bother them that South had slaves and more representation.

• They didn't think the South would continue to use slaves.

• They realized that they would not be able to create a successful national government without the South.

True or False: Large states such as Virginia and Georgia preferred a strong Federal government.

• True

• False

Created to select our president through representatives

• The 3/5 Compromise

• New Jersey Plan

• The Electoral Collage

• The Bill of Rights

The document that created the federal government of the U.S.A and the supreme law of our country

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

• Articles of Confederation

• The Constitution

Provides protection against unreasonable searches and seizures

• The First Amendment

• The Fourth Amendment

• The Fifth Amendment

• The Ninth and Tenth Amendments