Constitutional Convention Test
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| Where did the Constitutional Convention take place? | show 🗑
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| What was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention? | show 🗑
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| show | Because there was no national army to protect the country as a whole.
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| What was Shays Rebellion? | show 🗑
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| show | Shays Rebellion
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| What leader from Virginia argued that the country needed a stronger national government? | show 🗑
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| Why did some people want a stronger government? | show 🗑
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| What leader from Virginia disagreed with James Madison and wanted to keep the Articles as they were? | show 🗑
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| show | Rhode Island
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| show | The Articles.
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| show | George Washington
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| Why were the discussions about the changes to the articles kept secret? | show 🗑
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| Who asked for the Articles of Confederation to be replaced and for a new plan of government to be written? | show 🗑
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| What is the name of the system that says that the national and state governments share power? | show 🗑
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| What document became the supreme law of the land? | show 🗑
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| show | A republic
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| show | There were disagreements between the delegates about how each state would be represented in the new Congress.
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| Congress has two parts or houses, and the number of representatives would be based upon each state's population. | show 🗑
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| show | The Virginia Plan
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| Who said The Virginia Plan "strikes at the existence of the lesser states." | show 🗑
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| What was the name of the plan that purposed that the new Congress have one house in which each state would be equally represented. | show 🗑
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| show | to give up some of what one wanted.
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| The Great Comprimise was led by Roger Sherman of Connecticut. This became known as what? | show 🗑
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| This plan was based on a two house Congress. One house representation was based on population. The other house representation was equally represented. | show 🗑
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| An idea for a new law. | show 🗑
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| Both houses had to approve a bill before it could become what? | show 🗑
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| Only the house in which representation was based on population could propose what? | show 🗑
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| show | Delegates agreed to count 3/5ths of the slaves towards the number of representatives.
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| Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania called spoke out against what? | show 🗑
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| show | Slave Trade.
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| show | The Great Compromise
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| show | Gouverneur Morris
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