Transcript Building Our Constitution

Building the Constitution
through Compromise
Chapter 3.2 & lessons 12-14, 16-17 in
WTP
The Constitutional Convention
Constitutional Convention Intro., p. 20
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• Why did people say the delegates
were acting in an extralegal way?
• What does it mean to compromise?
• How do you compromise?
• What happens if you refuse to
compromise?
Read pp. 74-76 & Lessons 12-14 in WTP, Page 21.
For each of the following, answer the question for each
side, then, explain the compromise reached:
How should representation to Congress be organized?
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Large states:
Small states:
Compromise:
Should slaves be counted as part of a state’s population?
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Northern states:
Southern states:
Compromise:
Should the federal government control all trade by states?
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Northern states:
Southern states:
Compromise:
How should the president be elected?
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Large states:
Small states:
Compromise:
Federalists and Anti-Federalists, p. 22
Lessons 16-17
Federalists:
Anti-Federalists:
• Name 3 Federalists.
• Explain 3 ideas Federalists
used to convinced delegates
to ratify the Constitution?
• Explain the propaganda the
Federalists used to persuade
the states to ratify the
Constitution.
• What method did the
Federalists use to ratify the
Constitution? Why?
• Name 3 Anti-Federalists.
• Explain 3 objections of the
Anti-Federalists held against
the Constitution?
• Explain how Anti-Federalists
achieved their goal of adding
a BOR to the Constitution?
• What lasting impact did the
Anti-federalists and their
demands had on our country.