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| Articles of Confederation |
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| What was the first plan of government for the United States? |
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| What was wrong with the Articles of Confederation? |
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| It could not pass laws to collect taxes or make rules for trade. All states and congress could make money, and it only had one branch of gov. |
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| Why was the Articles of Confederation weak? |
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| What was one result of the weak gov? |
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| What was another name for representatives at the Constitutional Convention? |
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| To revise The Articles of Confederation |
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| What was the goal of the Constitutional Convention? |
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| Who was the head of The Constitutional Convention? |
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| Throw it out and write a new constitution |
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| What did James Madison and other delegates decide to do about The Articles of Confederation? |
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| What was the plan James Madison wrote? |
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| The gov. should have 3 branches of gov. and larger states should have more rep. than smaller states. |
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| What did the Virginia Plan include? |
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| What was the plan that William Patterson came up with? |
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| All states should have an equal number of rep. |
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| What did the New Jersey Plan include? |
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| What did Roger Sherman come up with to solve the dispute between the Virginia and New Jersey Plan? |
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| It said congress would be made of two houses called the House of Representatives and Senate. |
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| What did the Great Compromise include? |
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| Larger sates would have more Rep. than smaller states |
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| How many Representatives would each state have in the House of Rep. |
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| How many Representatives from each state would the senate have? |
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| 3 out of every 5 slaves would count towards population and taxes |
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| What was the 3/5 compromise? |
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| The importing of slaves would be stopped in 20 years. |
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| What did The Great Comp. say about the importing of slaves? |
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| A person for the constitution that wanted a strong National Government was |
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| A person against the constitution that wanted a strong state government was an |
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| The Articles of confederation gave most of its power to the |
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| The Constitution gave most of its power to the |
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| What did Thomas Jefferson think should be added to the Constitution? |
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| A list of 10 Amendments or changes to the Constitution garanteeing certain freedoms to the people. |
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| What was The Bill of Rights |
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| What did James Madison, Jon Jay, and Alexander Hamilton write to convince the states to ratify the Constitution? |
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| How many states votes were needed to ratify the Constitution? |
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| They realized the country would change and the Constitution may need to change in the future. |
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| Why was the constitution set up to allow amendments or changes to the Constitution? |
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| What was one accomplishment of the Articles of Confederation or the Confederation Gov.? |
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| During the Revolutionary War |
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| When was the Articles of Confederation written? |
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| It could not take effect until the war ended |
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| Why did it take from 1777-1781 for the Articles of Confederation to go into effect? |
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| What type of Government do we have? |
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| A gov. run by the people-They Vote. |
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| Because of Great-Britain's unfair taxes and rules |
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| Why did Anti-Federalists fear a strong National Gov. |
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| To keep any of the branches from becoming to powerful |
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| Why was the Gov.set up with three branches? The Legislative, Executive, & Judicial |
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