MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION THE GREAT COMPROMISE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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to revise the current Constitution
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to revise the Articles of Confederation
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The states’ disputes over territory, war pensions, taxation, and trade threatened to tear the young country apart. Alexander Hamilton helped convince Congress to organize a Grand Convention of state delegates to work on revising the Articles of Confederation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why did the Founding Fathers replace the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution? In short, the Articles of Confederation did not give the federal government enough power. Under them, there was no president and the country was run only by Congress.
Detailed explanation-3: -Events such as Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising by debt-ridden farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786 and early 1787, exposed the weaknesses of the federal government and galvanized calls for revising the Articles of Confederation.
Detailed explanation-4: -A chief aim of the Constitution as drafted by the Convention was to create a government with enough power to act on a national level, but without so much power that fundamental rights would be at risk.
Detailed explanation-5: -From May to September 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention hammered out the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia.