Important Questions:
1. How were the federalists and antifederalists different? What specific issues were important to both and how did they reconcile their differences enough in order to create and pass the U.S. Constitution.
2. What were some of the limitations and powers of the articles of Confederation and what made the colonists decide they needed a stronger government?
3. What was the most likely reason a delegate at the Constitutional Convention would have considered approving the Three-Fifths Compromise?
2. What were some of the limitations and powers of the articles of Confederation and what made the colonists decide they needed a stronger government?
3. What was the most likely reason a delegate at the Constitutional Convention would have considered approving the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Terms:
- Bicameral
- Republic
- Articles of Confederation
- Ordnance of 1785
- Shay’s Rebellion
- Constitutional Convention
- Virginia Plan
- New Jersey Plan
- Great Compromise
- ⅗ Compromise
- Baron de Montesquieu
- John Locke
- Federal system - Federalism
- Legislative
- Judicial
- Executive
- Federalist
- Antifederalist
- Bill of Rights
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