The Constitutional Convention: A Country Through Compromise

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Go inside the Constitutional Convention to learn how a new nation abandoned the Articles of Confederation to form a new system of government through debate and compromise.
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Used this video in my Government class. Good overview of the Constitutional plans and compromises. It was clutter free and got right to the point! Thanks!

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History teacher here. Great breakdown. Do more videos!

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It helped me more than any other video thanks

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Answer key

1. The Virginia and the New Jersey Plan all called for a Legislative Branch, Executive Branch and ____ Branch
Judicial

2. The Virginia Plan had a bicameral Congress, with a House of Representatives and a ___."
Senate

3. The New Jersey Plan had only 1 house in the ____ Branch.
Legislative

4. Which plan said that the more people a state had, the more representatives that state should have in Congress?
Virginia Plan

5. The New Jersey Plan said that each state should get one vote. They wanted this, because they had a ____ population, and having 1 representative per state would give them more power than a plan that gave highly populated states more representatives.
small

6. The solution was to create a Congress with two houses. The House of Representatives would have membership based on population of the states, and the Senate would have ____ Senators per state, no matter how many people lived there.
two

7. This solution on how to elect people to Congress was called the ____ ____ . (two word answer)
Great Compromise

8. Unfortunately, another compromise was made at the convention, a tragic compromise that would eventually lead to America fracturing and going to war, with northern states going against the south. This terrible decision was called the
three fifths compromise

9. Northern states wanted to abolish ____ ____ and the South wanted to maintain this practice. The compromise was that it would be allowed to go on, and could not even be discussed by the government again, for the next 20 years. Name this abomidable practice.
slave trade

10. The compromise in question #9 was a direct violation of the letter and the spirit of the ____ ____ ____, which stated that all men were created equal.
Declaration of Independence

hamish
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Some compromises are great, some not as great. 🤔🤔😉

owlnyc
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Why did you do this my history teacher made this stupid assignment now that I have to redo because he couldn't find the first one.

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