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Articles of Confederation/Constitutional Convention Power Point Notes

  1. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 applied to what area of the United States?

  1. The Articles of Confederation would serve as trial run for a federal government.  What were some of the drawbacks to the Articles?

  1. Daniel Shay, a former soldier, led a revolt and tried to capture the Springfield arsenal.  The people that accompanied Shay were primarily _________________________ who didn’t want to loose their land.

  1. A confederation is a voluntary alliance of _____________________________ states.

  1. The Constitutional Convention would end up determining how the United States would operate.  How many people attended?  What are some things that all of the people present have in common?

  1. The ______________________ was proposed by James Madison and was going to have a bicameral legislature.  The lower house was to be chosen by ________________________ and the upper house would be chosen by members of the __________________________.

  1. Under Madison’s plan the big states would benefit because representation in Congress would be based on ______________________________.

  1. William Patterson proposed an alternate plan that would benefit small states.  The __________________________ plan would give each state one vote in Congress, have an executive and a judiciary.

  1. The ______________________________ asserts superiority of national law over state or regional laws.

  1. The __________________ Compromise is also known as the _______________________ Compromise.  This plan proposed by Robert Sherman would have a lower house called _____________________________ that would be based on population and an upper house called __________________________ in which all states would have equal representation.

  1. The dispute over counting slaves for purposes of taxes and representation was solved by the __________________ Compromise, which stated that _________ out of every ___________ slaves would be counted as people.

  1. The ________________________ wanted a strong central government to protect the people while the _________________________ believed that states needed to retain their power and wanted a bill of rights to ensure freedoms.