Constitutional Compromises: Crash Course #5 OEQ

What government did the Constitution replace?

• Mayflower Compact

• The Articles of Confederation

• Magna Carta

• The Second Continental Congress

What did the different states have to do in order to agree on a Constitution?

• Compromise 

• Pay debts

• Build a wall

• Fight France 

What two branches of government were missing under the Articles of Confederation?

• Legislative and Judicial

• Judicial and Executive

• Legislative and Executive

Under the Articles, Congress could not _____________, which meant that it had to ask the states for ______________.

• make laws, permission

• Make decisions, food

• make treaties, compromises

• tax, money

What was the one major success of the Articles of Confederation?

• End of Slavery

• Northwest Ordinance 

• Jays Treaty

• Treaty with Paris

Which government plan for the Constitution favored bigger states?

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• California Plan

• Wisconsin Plan

Which plan for the Constitution favored smaller states?

• Virginia Plan 

• New York Plan 

• New Jersey Plan

• Pennsylvania Plan

Which is true about the Great Compromise (a.k.a. the Connecticut Compromise)

• it called for two branches of government instead of one

• It called for a unicameral legislature

• it called for slaves to be counted as 3/5ths of a person n terms of population

• it called for a bicameral legislature with one house based on population and the other equally

What compromise embedded slavery into the Constitution?

• Connecticut  compromise

• 3/5's compromise

• Electoral college compromise

• New deal 

Who wrote the Federalist Papers and why were the Federalist Papers written?

• John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison

• George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams

• Ben Franklyn, John Dickinson, Thomas Paine

• Samual Adams, Roger Sherman, Aaron Burr