Creating the Constitution

What was the Great Compromise?

• The Virginia Plan
• The New Jersey Plan
• A combining of the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan
• A destruction of the Virginia & New Jersey plans

What does the political cartoon represent?

• 3/5 Compromise: every 5 slaves = 3 people for representation & taxation in Congress

• 5/3 Compromise: every 3 slaves = 5 people for representation & taxation in Congress

• 3/5 Compromise: every 3 slaves = 5 people for representation in the slave trade taxes

• 10/8 Compromise: every 10 slaves = 8 people for representation in the Appalachian Mountains

Determining representation in the House of Representatives & the Senate caused - 

• conflict between the north and the south
• conflict between the large states & the small states
• conflict between the middle colonies, the southern colonies & the New England colonies
• conflict between all the delegates

What made people concerned about the weakness of the central (federal) government under the Articles of Confederation and caused the revision?

• The Great Compromise

• Constitutional Convention

• The 3/5 Compromise

• Shay's Rebellion

The smaller states wanted - 

• equal representation for all states in Congress
• representation in Congress based on a state's population
• the revision of the Articles of Confederation
• the nation's capitol in New Jersey

What was New Jersey's plan?

• Representation in Congress and taxation is based on population
• All states have equal representation in Congress & taxation
• That we only have 2 branches of government: legislative and executive
• That we keep the Articles of Confederation the same

What was Virginia's plan?

• Representation in Congress and taxation is based on population
• All states have equal representation in Congress & taxation
• That we only have 2 branches of government: legislative and executive
• That we keep the Articles of Confederation the same

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison
• George Washington

Who wrote the U.S. Constitution?

• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison
• George Washington

Every state has 2 representatives in the - 

• The Legislative Branch
• House of Representatives
• Congress
• Senate