Questions Chap 8 Ii

Questions Chapter 8 History Alive! The United States Name __________________________________ date ___________ state _________ Test date _________________________ Answer the following questions in complete sentences. 8.4 Opening the Constitutional Convention 1. Who ran the Constitutional Convention? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 2. What state was missing from the convention? Explain why. ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 3. Why Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and Sam Adams did not attend the convention? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 4. What is a good description of the delegates who attended the convention? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 5. Who is the Father of the Constitution? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 6. Why was the convention so secretive? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________

8.5 Issue: How Should States Be Represented in the New Government? 7. Describe the Virginia Plan. ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 8. Describe the New Jersey Plan. ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 8.6 Resolution: The Great Compromise 9. Who established the Great Compromise and describe the compromise. ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 8.7 Issue: How Should Slaves Be Counted? 10. Which group of states would benefit if slaves were counted as property? Explain why. ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 11. What were Northerners and Southerners thoughts on slavery after the Revolutionary War? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________

8.8 Resolution: The Three-Fifths Compromise 12. What was the three-fifths compromise? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 8.9 Issue: How Should the Chief Executive Be Elected? 13. Describe the debates over one or three executive? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 14. Why did the delegates vote against the idea of the general population to elect a President? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 8.10 Resolution: The Electoral College 15. Explain how the Electoral College works to elect a President. ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 8.11 The Convention Ends 16. How many states were required to ratify the Constitution? Why that number? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 17. When was the Constitution signed? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________

18. Why did some delegates decide not to sign the Constitution? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 8.12 The Constitution Goes to the Nation 19. Who were the Federalists and Anti-Federalists? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 20. What is the difference between Federalism and Federalist? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 21. Define republic. ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 22. What was the argument of the Federalists? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 23. What was the argument of the Anti-Federalists? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________