Questions

Chapter 8
History Alive! The United States

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Answer the following questions in complete sentences.

8.4 Opening the Constitutional Convention

1. Who ran the Constitutional Convention?
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2. What state was missing from the convention? Explain why.

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3. Why Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and Sam

Adams did not attend the convention?
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4. What is a good description of the delegates who attended the

convention?
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5. Who is the Father of the Constitution?

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6. Why was the convention so secretive?

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8.5 Issue: How Should States Be Represented in the New
Government?
7. Describe the Virginia Plan.
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8. Describe the New Jersey Plan.

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8.6 Resolution: The Great Compromise

9. Who established the Great Compromise and describe the
compromise.
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8.7 Issue: How Should Slaves Be Counted?

10. Which group of states would benefit if slaves were counted
as property? Explain why.
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11. What were Northerners and Southerners thoughts on

slavery after the Revolutionary War?
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8.8 Resolution: The Three-Fifths Compromise
12. What was the three-fifths compromise?
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8.9 Issue: How Should the Chief Executive Be Elected?

13. Describe the debates over one or three executive?
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14. Why did the delegates vote against the idea of the general
population to elect a President?
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8.10 Resolution: The Electoral College

15. Explain how the Electoral College works to elect a
President.
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8.11 The Convention Ends

16. How many states were required to ratify the Constitution?
Why that number?
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17. When was the Constitution signed?

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 18. Why did some delegates decide not to sign the
Constitution?
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8.12 The Constitution Goes to the Nation

19. Who were the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
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20. What is the difference between Federalism and Federalist?

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21. Define republic.

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22. What was the argument of the Federalists?

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23. What was the argument of the Anti-Federalists?

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