Ch. 8- A More Perfect Union

What did larger states agree to in order for smaller states to ratify the Constitution?

• Give up western land claims to be sold
• Equally divide all territory
• Not extend past the Appalachian Mountains
• Sell the Louisiana Purchase

What document replaced the Articles of Confederation and established a new national government? 

• The Declaration of Independence 
• The Constitution 
• The Magna Carta 
• The English Bill of Rights 

What does ratification mean?

• To deny
• to ask for
• to demand
• to approve

What does ratification mean?

• To deny
• to ask for
• to demand
• to approve

Feared a strong central government;  Believed a bill of rights needed to be added to the Constitution;  opponents of the Constitution.

• democrats
• anti-federalists
• federalists
• small states

The Constitutional Convention took place-

• 1781

• 1787

• 1776

• 1783

The counting of enslaved people for the purpose of representation was the main issue of -

• Great Compromise

• One-Third Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Slave Compromise

The image represents what resolution that happened at the Convention- 

• Three Fifths Compromise
• One Quarter Compromise
• Slave Compromise
• Great Compromise

Someone that favored approval of the Constitution is called-

• Federalist
• Anti Federalist
• Republican
• Democrat

Why were the Articles of Confederation replaced?

• it created an executive branch
• government was took weak to manage state relations
• it created a powerful army
• it created a judicial branch