U.S. Constitutional Compromises and Issues

What was the main problem with the Articles of Confederation?

• It was written during the Civil War.

• It created a strong military.

• It allowed states to have too much power.

• It gave too much power to the central government.

What was the Great Compromise?

• A plan to end the Revolutionary War.

• A decision to have a single-house legislature.

• A treaty with the British.

• An agreement to create a two-house legislature.

How did the Great Compromise satisfy both large and small states?

• By eliminating the Senate.

• By allowing states to choose their own laws.

• By creating a two-house system with different representation methods.

• By giving all states the same number of representatives.

Why did delegates from larger states, like Virginia, support the Virginia Plan?

• It granted the national government the power to legislate for states and veto state laws.

• It ensured that the national government could not override state authority.

• It based legislative representation on a state's population.

• It proposed a unicameral legislature where every state had one vote.

What was the Three-Fifths Compromise about?

• Counting enslaved people as full citizens.

• Counting three out of every five enslaved people for representation.

• Giving enslaved people the right to vote.

• Ending slavery in the southern states.

What did the Anti-Federalists demand to be added to the Constitution?

• More power for the President.

• A stronger central government.

• A Bill of Rights.

• A new set of laws.