Constitutional Conventions

People who chose to support the new Constitution were called...

• Whigs

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Federalists

A meeting held in Philadelphia in 1787 at which delegates from the states wrote the U.S. Constitution 

• Philly meeting

• Treaty of Philadelphia

• Constitutional Convention

The plan of government adopted at the Constitutional Convention that established a two-house Congress. In the House of Representatives, representation from each state is based on state population. In the Senate, each state is represented by two senators. 

• Huge Compromise

• Great Addition

• Great Compromise

Ratify

• to approve formally

• Small animals in a sewer

• To not approve

An agreement made at the Constitutional Convention stating that enslaved persons would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining a state’s population for representation in the House of Representatives 

• Two-halves Compromise

• Three-fourths Compromise

• Two-fifths Compromise

• Three-fifths Compromise

A written plan that provides the basic framework of a government

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

• Play book

• Compromise

The Great Compromise solved the problem of both big and small states wanting representation. 

• True

• False

A constitutional amendment may be proposed by a national convention if that convention is called for by

• three fourths of the Senate

• two-thirds of the state legislatures

• three-fourths of the state legislatures

• two-thirds of each house of Congress

A constitutional amendment proposed by Congress can be ratified by

• only the state legislatures

• either the state legislatures or the state conventions

• only the state conventions

• either the national convention or the Congress

What was the original purpose of the Constitutional Convention?

• To rewrite the Declaration of Independence

• To rewrite the Articles of Confederation

• To write the Treaty of Paris

• To elect the first president