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USG 2.4 "Creating the Constitution" & Review
Directions: Read each main idea and supply the missing detalls that explain or support each idea.
A. Main Iden: Although delegates to the Constitutional Convention agreed on fundamental issues, they had to work together to
resolve a number of disagreements.
1. Detalli The delegates agreed that the new government would be limited and presentative
branches and that state
the powers of the national government would be divided among
government powers should be limited.
2. Detail in the vicardia
Plan, a strong legislature with representatives based on state population
had the power to bar state laws it deemed
choose the executive and
appoint the judiciary,
3. Detail: Smaller, less populous states supported the
Plan, which proposed a
legislature with one vote for each state, a weak executive leader elected by
and a national judiciary appointed by the
4. Detail: The
proposed a legislative branch with two parts, one with
representation based on
and one giving all states
representation. This became known as the "Great Compromise."
5. Detail: Debate over the presidency was settled by creating the
system in which each state selected electors who chose an executive to serve a four-year term.
B. Main Idea: Compromises temporarily settled, but did not solve, the divisive issue of slavery.
and
6. Detail: The Three-Fifths Compromise counted three-fifths of enslaved people for both
7. Detail: A compromise over commerce and the slave trade empowered Congress to regulate
and foreign commerce but not to ban the slave trade before 1808.
C. Main Idea: Once the delegates had completed and signed the Constitution, it had to be ratified, or approved, by 9 of the 13 states
before it could become low.
criticized it
8. Detail:
because it lacked a
favored the Constitution while
or a listing of citizens' protections.
9. Detail: Federalists promised a bill of rights, helping attitudes to shift in favor of the Constitution. Many small
states
the Constitution because they were pleased with equal representation in the new Senate.
10. Detail: The
written largely by Alexander Hamilton and James
Madison, answered the opposition's fears that a republic had to be a small government.
11. Detail: During the first session of the new Congress, James Madison introduced a set of amendments, ten of
which became the