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Unit 2 – A New Nation Name:

Chapter 4 Section 3, pages 125-130 Date:


Questions Notes
1. When did the Confederation Congress
invite each state to send delegates to
Philadelphia and what were they to do
there?

2. It was held in Philadelphia in May, 1787, in


Independence Hall to improve the Articles
of confederation

3. What were at least 2 things most 1.


delegates had in common?
2.

4. These important men in American history


attended the convention
5. Who was selected as president of the
convention?

6. These three important Americans did not


attend the convention

7. Why were there no women, African


Americans and Indians present at the
convention?

8. What did small and large states have


differences about?

9. The delegates also disagreed over how


strong the ______ ______ should be.

10. Who presented the Virginia Plan? What


did he propose?

11. What does bicameral mean?


12. How would the number of legislators a
state was allowed to have be chosen?

13. They believed this would give too much


power to the larger states

14. Who presented the New Jersey plan?


What did it call for? How many votes would
each state have?

15. One house

16. Who proposed a compromise?

17. How many houses would the


legislature have with this plan?

18. How many representatives would each


state have in the upper house, or Senate?
What states were happy about this?

19. The number of representatives would be


based on a states population. Larger
states were pleased with this.

20. What did this plan become known as?

21. How did Southern delegates want to


count “enslaved persons” and why did it
matter to the southern states?
22. Wanted slaves to count for taxation but not
for representation
23. Under this agreement each slave would
count as 3/5ths of a person for determining
representation in the House of
Representatives
24. Some delegates believed this was wrong
and wanted the federal government to
ban, or end, it
25. What was the argument in favor of
keeping slavery in the U.S.? What would
southern delegates do if slavery was
immediately ended?
26.How many years was the slavery issue
to be postponed?
26. Even though delegates wanted a strong
central government, they still hoped to
protect this – it means political authority
belongs to the people
27. What is federalism?

28. States must obey the authority of this.

29. What are some government functions


states can control themselves?

30. What is the name of the US legislative


part (branch) of government? For what
is it responsible?
31. What is the executive branch and what
can it do?

32. Made up of the national courts –


responsible for interpreting laws, punishing
criminals and settling state disputes.
33. These keep any branch of the government
from becoming too powerful.

34. Give an example of a check, or stop,


the executive branch has on the
legislative branch.

35. What can the Supreme court do to a


law that it considers to be
unconstitutional?

36. The date the final draft of the Constitution


was signed by the delegates

37. The signers believed the Constitution


would protect these ideas.
38. Examine the chart on p. 130.
List 5 strengths of the new Constitution.

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