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Chapter 6 & 7 APUSH AMSCO Questions and Answers.pdf
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Chapter 6 & 7 APUSH AMSCO Questions and AnswersAnnapolis Convention – correct answer A convention held in September 1786 to
consider problems of trade and navigation, attended by five states and important
because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the
Constitutional Convention
Constitutional Convention - correct answer A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that
produced a new constitution
James Madison - correct answer Father of the Constitution
Alexander Hamilton - correct answer 1789-1795; First Secretary of the Treasury. He
advocated creation of a national bank, assumption of state debts by the federal
government, and a tariff system to pay off the national debt.
Gouverneur Morris - correct answer United States statesman who led the committee
that produced the final draft of the United States Constitution (1752-1816)
John Dickinson - correct answer Conservative leader who wrote "Letters from a Farmer
in Pennsylvania"; advocated for colonial rights but urged conciliation with England &
opposed the Declaration of Independence; helped to write the Articles of Confederation.
, Virginia Plan - correct answer Initial proposal at the Constitutional Convention made by
the Virginia delegation for a strong central government with a bicameral legislature
dominated by the big states.
New Jersey Plan - correct answer A constitutional proposal that would have given each
state one vote in a new congress
Connecticut Plan - correct answer The Connecticut Plan called for a two-house
Congress in which both types of representation would be applied, and is also known as
the Compromise Plan. Great Compromise.
Three-fifths Compromise; slave trade - correct answer Agreement that each slave
counted as three-fifths of a person in determining representation in the House for
representation and taxation purposes (negated by the 13th amendment)
Commercial Compromise - correct answer Allowed Congress to regulate interstate and
foreign commerce yet prohibited any tariffs on exported goods. This agreement
incorporated the needs of both the Anti-Federalists and the Federalists to some degree.
electoral college system - correct answer delegates assign to each state a number of
electors equal to the total of that state's representatives and senators; instituted
because the delegates at Philadelphia feared that too much democracy might lead to
mob rule
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