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14 Cards in this Set
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The New Jersey Plan
1. one-house legislature with ________ vote for each state 2. a weak _____________ branch |
1. one
2. executive |
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3. the plan was just to ___________ the Articles of Confederation
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3. amend
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Compromise Wins Out
- delegates voted to work toward a national government based on the ___________ plan - still needed to resolve issue of ____________ that divided the large and small states |
- Virginia
- representative |
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A. Discussion and Disagreement
1. many issues to resolve that were creating conflict |
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B. The Great Compromise
1. _____________ proposed the Great Compromise 2. __________: an agreement between two or more sides in which each side gives up some of what it wants |
2. Compromise
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3. two-house legislature
a. ________________: number of representative was based on state's population |
a. House of Representatives
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b. __________: each state had two representatives
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b. the Senate
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4. Great Compromise broke the deadlock between the ________ and _________ states
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The Three-Fifths Compromise
1. North & South could not agree on counting slaves in population for __________ or as property for ____________. |
1. South
North |
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2. Neither side considered giving slaves the right to _________.
3. solution was to count each slave as _________ of a free person for both taxation and representation |
2. vote
3. 3/5 |
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4) 5 slaves =______ free persons
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4) 3
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D. Slave Trade
1. __________ wanted to end it but South did not 2. agreement that Congress could not _________ with slave trade until 1808 |
1. North
2. interfere |
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E. Bill of Rights
1. most felt it was unnecessary to have a Bill of Rights because the Constitution would cover __________ of the people |
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F. Approving the Constitution
1. date: _____________ 2. delegates decided that only ________ of 13 states needed to approve the Constitution to get it approved |
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2. nine |