The Constitution and Bill of Rights: Drafting the Constitution

Why did the Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise involve so much debate and discussion? The states were not ready to give up all of their independence. The states believed the Articles of Confederation were adequate. Each state was looking out for its personal interests and needs. Each state was certain that cooperation would lead to mutiny.

Each state was looking out for its personal interests and needs.

Which statement about the Great Compromise is accurate? It included all of Edmund Randolph's ideas. It was a completely new and different plan. It overlooked the issue of state representation. It merged the ideas of multiple delegates' plans.

It merged the ideas of multiple delegates' plans.

Why were delegates working to replace the Articles of Confederation? The Articles created a central government that was too weak. The Articles created a central government that was too strong. The Articles did not protect the rights of citizens. The Articles did not protect the rights of the states.

The Articles created a central government that was too weak.

What was the primary way that the economy in the South differed from the economy of the North? The farms of the South did not rely on enslaved labor. The farms of the South raised agricultural products. The factories of the South provided important exports. The factories of the South were far more advanced.

The farms of the South raised agricultural products.

Which statement about the northern states in the 1780s is accurate? Their economy was based on agriculture. They had far fewer large cities than the southern states. They generally had less enslaved labor than the southern states. They had very large farms called plantations.

They generally had less enslaved labor than the southern states.

The Constitution was a result of multiple legislations. democracies. compromises. populations.

compromises.

What were the men who came to the Constitutional Convention referred to as? representatives senators delegates politicians.

delegates

In what part of the Great Compromise are the ideas of the Virginia Plan represented? the Senate the House of Representatives the Office of the President the Unicameral Legislature

not the Unicameral Legislature

The issue of slavery at the Constitutional Convention was actually an issue about representation. taxes. population. legislature.

representation.

Why did the state delegates meet in 1787? to discuss a better system of government to elect George Washington as president to write the Articles of Confederation to collect taxes to pay the nation's debt

to discuss a better system of government