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Forging a New Nation
Terms to Know
Depression- a period when economic activity slows and unemployment increases
Manumission- when a slaveholder frees an enslaved person
Proportional- having the proper size in
relation to other objects or items
Compromise-an agreement between two or more sides in which each side gives up
some of what it wants
1. Why did farmers in Massachusetts rebel in 1787?
2. Why was it important for the American people to trust the work of the
Constitutional Convention?
3. How many representatives would each state have under the Virginia Plan?
4. Why did New Jersey’s delegates object to the Virginia Plan? What was their
proposal?
5. In your own words, describe the Great Compromise.
6. Convention delegates agreed on what number of states to approve the
Constitution?
7. What did white Southerners believe would happen if slavery no longer
existed?
8. What weaknesses in the national government did Shays’ Rebellion reveal?
9. What was the difference between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey
Plan? If you had to choose, which Plan would you choose? Why?
10.What two people guaranteed public trust at the Constitutional Convention?
Why?