Articles of Confederation & Constitutional Convention

Which delegate to the Constitutional Convention needed some persuading to attend in order to lend the convention some legitimacy?

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• George Washington

•   Alexander Hamilton

What year did the Constitutional Convention take place?

• 1687

• 1787

• 1887

• 1987

What word or phrase is used to describe a two-house legislative body?

• Bi-legislative

• Congress

• Dual legislature

• Bicameral

James Madison drafted this plan for the new federal government which created a two-house legislature, both of which were based on population:

• The Virginia Plan

• The New Jersey Plan

• The Connecticut Compromise

• The Madisonian Plan

This alternative plan, with a one-house legislature was favored by the smaller populated states:

• The Virginia Plan

• The New Jersey Plan

• The Connecticut Compromise

• The Madisonian Plan

All of the following provisions solved problems of the Articles of Confederation EXCEPT:

• The power to tax

•     The power to regulate interstate commerce

•     The creation of the three branches of government

• The power to draft soldiers into the military

How did the Great Compromise solve the issue of representation in Congress?

• It created a one house Congress in which all states would have equal representation

• It created a Senate and a House of Representatives in which larger states would have more representatives in both houses

• It created a Senate and a House of Representatives in which larger starts would have more representatives in one house and all states would have equal representation in the other

• It allowed the people to vote on how many representatives their state would have

What compromise was created for choosing the President of the United States?

• The Three-Fifths Compromise

• The Electoral College

• The Presidential Decree

• The Connecticut Compromise

What did the controversial Three-Fifths Compromise establish?

• Each representative would count as 3/5s of the state’s population

• For every five enslaved persons that were brought to the United States, three were given their freedom

• Larger states would only be taxed for 3/5s of their population

• Each enslaved individual would count as 3/5s of a person towards a state’s representation in Congress

Which delegate is known as the “Father of the Constitution'' for drafting most of its text?

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• George Washington

•   Alexander Hamilton