Constitutional Convention

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

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

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

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

Every state has 2 representatives in the - 

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

Every state has representatives based on population in the - 

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

True or False? The Articles of Confederation were discarded for the Constitution?

• True

• False

Which of the options below was a major weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• Lead the states through the Revolutionary War

• Agreed to an alliance with France in 1788

• Congress could not impose taxes

• Established the Departments of Foreign Affairs, War, Marine, and Treasury

What did all representatives to the Constitutional Convention agree about before the Convention began?

• The Articles of Confederation did not give enough power to the national government.

• The Articles of Confederation gave to much power to the national government.

• The British were right and they needed to go back.

• The French at to much stinky cheese.