Lesson 5 and 6 Flashcards
(23 cards)
What Three Compromises Were There?
The Great Compromise, the Three-Fifths Compromise, and the Commerce Compromise
What Three Deists Were There?
Benjamin Franklin, James Wilson, and Hugh Williamson
Which Plan Favored the Large States?
The Virginia Plan
Which Plan Favored the Small States?
The New Jersey Plan
Who Argued Against Slave Trade?
George Mason
Other Name for the Supremacy Clause
“The Linchpin of the Constitution”
Who Proposed the Virginia Plan?
Edmund Randolph
Who Proposed the New Jersey Plan?
William Paterson
Who Proposed the Aristocratic Plan?
Alexander Hamilton
Who Refined the Wording of the Constitution?
Gouverneur Morris
Who Proposed the Three Fifths Compromise?
James Madison
What was in the Three Fifths Compromise?
Each slave counted as three fifths for apportioning reps and for levying taxes
Who was the Author of the Great Compromise?
Benjamin Franklin
One Financier of the Revolutionary War
Robert Morris
Who Said, “The Evils We Experience Flow From the Excess of Democracy?”
Elbridge Gerry
Why was the Three Fifths Compromise Necessary?
To compromise and decide on the subject of representation in Congress
How Should the US President be Elected, According to the Convention?
By electors from each state
How Should the Constitution be Ratified?
By the majority of voters in nine states
How Many Delegates Signed the Constitution?
39
What Form of Representation Did the Virginia Plan Allow?
Free white population
Who Did Not Attend the Convention Due to France Affairs?
Thomas Jefferson
Who Did Not Attend the Convention Due to English Affairs?
John Adams
What City was the Largest City in the World at the Time?
Mexico City
