convention

1. Constitutional Convention

2. Bell work 9/28
1. Why did Daniel Shays and his farmer friends
revolt?
2. What did the federal government do in
response to Shays’ Rebellion?
*** Next week (4 days): review day and test over
Revolution through Convention****

3. # 16 Constitutional Convention (will need 2
pages)
• You will be delegates from given states
• Items underlined need to be written down! If there’s nothing
underlined, copy the question.
• Timer will change slides, colors will change

4. TabbCivics.wikispaces.com
• Unit 3: Constitution

5. Pick one of the delegates from your state, each
person must have a different delegate (8min)
1. _________ (state), _____________ (delegate’s
name)
A. Age at convention:
B. Education:
C. Occupation:
D.Participation in new gov (summarize):

6. Pick a representative- take the state name
with you
• Send your rep to the
appropriate geographic corner
of the room (figure out as a
group, which you identify with)
• North
• South
•See any thing interesting?
What issue could arise?

7. 2. Population of __:(total)=___(slave)=__
A. Compared to the other states’ free population, are
you large or small? _____________ total population
B. Compared to other states’ slave population, are you
large or small?____________ slave population
(5 min)

8. Population:
• Pick a NEW representative (take your state name)
• Put your selves in size order
• Raise your hand if your state had a small slave population (under
50,000.) Any issues you see here?

9. 3. The Great Compromise (6min)
A.
B. Which plan (New Jersey or Virginia) would your state have
supported? Why?
New Jersey Plan Compromise Virginia Plan

10. 4. 3/5 Compromise (10 min)
A. How did the north count slaves?
B. How did the south count slaves?
C. How would your state have felt about the issue of
counting slaves? What made you think this?
D. Why did James Wilson propose the 3/5
Compromise?
E. What does the 3/5 Compromise allow?

11. 5. Electoral College (9 min-”origins of the
electoral college section ONLY)
A. “3 ideas” for picking the President
B. Which idea sounds like the best solution to you? Why?
C. Final Compromise:
Idea for picking president Rejected because

12. 6. Federalists vs Anti-Federalists (5 min)
A. Federalists wanted________________ so they liked (document
name)
B. Anti-Federalists wanted_____________so they liked (document
name)
C. Why didn’t the Anti-Federalists like the Constitution?

13. 7. Articles of Confederation vs Constitution
(8min- scroll down to the bold terms to compare )• For each term compare the way each document addressed the issue
Articles of Confederation issue Constitution
Ratification
Executive Branch
When Congress
isn’t in session
Amendments

14. 8. How stubborn was your state?
• ratification