US Government
Chapter 2 Section 4: The Constitutional Convention
Name:
Standard A.3 A student who meets the content standard should understand how nations organize their
governments;
Standard B.7 A student who meets the content standard should distinguish between constitution-based
ideals and the reality of American political and social life;
Vocabulary: Define each of the following:
interstate commerce -
extralegal -
anarchy -
USING COMPLETE SENTENCES answer the following:
1. Identify at least THREE leaders of the Constitutional Convention.
2. Who presided over the convention?
3. How many votes did each state have at the convention?
4. How many states had to be represented in order for a meeting to take place?
5. Name at least THREE basic issues the delegates agreed on.
6. What were the three major points of the Virginia Plan?
7. What were the major points in the New Jersey Plan?
8. What were the two major points of the Connecticut Compromise?
9. What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?
10. What compromises were made on the Slave Trade and Interstate Commerce?
11. Why did delegates compromise on the question of slavery even though they thought slavery
was wrong?
12. What compromises did the delegates make regarding how the president was to be elected?
13. How many states had to ratify the Constitution in order for it to become law?
14. When did the Constitution go into effect?
15. What major demand did the Anti-Federalist insist upon, in order to support the Constitution?
16. What did the Federalists believe would happen without a strong national government.
17. Why did the Anti-Federalists believe the Constitutional Convention was 'extralegal'?
18. What was the name of the book which contained 80 essays in support of the ratification of
the Constitution?