Jeopardy

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The Convention
People
Constitution
Compromise
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Final Jeopardy
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100 Question from Dates
Which house of the Congress was set up to provide
representation based on the population of the
state?
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100 Answer from Dates and Numbers
The Lower House or House of Representatives
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200 Question from Numbers
How many representatives from each state are
there in the Senate?
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200 Answer from Numbers
Two
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300 Question from Dates Numbers
How much time elapsed between the announcement
of the Declaration of Independence and the
writing of the Constitution?
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300 Answer from Dates and Numbers
Eleven Years
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400 Question from Dates Numbers
What was the exact day, month and year that the
Constitution was signed by the delegates to the
Constitutional Convention?
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400 Answer from Numbers Dates
September 17, 1787
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500 Question from Dates Numbers

• What was the exact day, month and
• Year that the Constitutional Convention
• convened?
• May 25, 1787
• May 5, 1789
• September 17, 1789
• D. July 4, 1787

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500 Answer from Dates Numbers
A. May 25, 1787
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100 Question from People
Who is known as the Father of the Constitution?
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100 Answer from People
James Madison
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200 Question from People
Who became the first President of the United
States in April 1789?
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200 Answer from People
George Washington
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300 Question from People
Before he became the PA delegate to the
Constitutional Convention in 1787, he proposed
the Albany Plan of Union (1754) where each of the
13 colonies would join together to meet annually.
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300 Answer from People
Ben Franklin
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400 Question from People
This anti-federalist, famous for his quote in the
House of Burgess, Give me liberty of give me
death refused to attend the Constitutional
Convention. He opposed the Constitution because
he thought that it gave too much power to the
federal government.
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400 Answer from People
Patrick Henry
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500 Question from People
This Federalist and writer of The Federalist
Papers, was a delegate representing New York at
the Constitutional Convention. He thought that
we needed a stronger national government than
what we had under the Articles of Confederation.
He later became our first Secretary of the
Treasury.
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500 Answer from People
Alexander Hamilton
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100 Question from Compromise
What were 2 issues that the delegates
compromised on to get the Constitution passed?
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100 Answer from Compromise
Slavery (The Commerce and Slave Trade
Compromise) Number of Representative for each
state (the 3/5 Compromise and the Connecticut
Compromise) Protection from government (Bill of
Rights)
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200 Question from Compromises
The Connecticut Compromise gave us a bicameral
legislature set up to satisfy both the large and
small states. What is a bicameral legislature?
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200 Answer from Compromises
A legislative branch made up of two chambers or
houses. We have the Senate and the House of
Representatives.
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300 Question from Compromises
The Connecticut Compromise was a compromise
between what two plans that had been presented at
the Convention.
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300 Answer from Compromise
Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan
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400 Question from Compromise
Who authored the Virginia Plan? (Also called the
Randolph Plan)
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400 Answer from Compromise
James Madison
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500 Question from Compromise
In Madisons original Virginia plan how would the
number of representatives be chosen?
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500 Answer from Compromise
Appointed by population
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100 Question from The Convention
Where was the Constitutional Convention held?
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100 Answer from The Convention
Philadelphia
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200 Question from the Convention
Who took notes on everything that was said and
kept them secret for 30years?
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200 Answer from the Convention
James Madison
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300 Question from the Convention
What is the word for a representative of a group
of people who is sent to a meeting to act on the
behalf of the people he or she represents. The
Constitutional Convention had 55 of them.
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300 Answer from The Convention
Delegates
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400 Question from the Convention
The Constituional Convention originally met to
fix our first Constitution because it did not
give the government enough power to be effective.
What was that 1st constitution?
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400 Answer from The Convention
The Articles of Confederation
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500 Question from The Convention
What type of legislative body did the New Jersey
Plan call for?
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500 Answer from the Convention
Unicameral
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100 Question from The Constitution
What are the Framers of the Constitution?
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100 Answer from Constitution
The group of delegates that drafted the US
Constitution.
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200 Question from Constitution
What was a problem with the Articles of
Confederation?
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200 Answer from Constitution
The Federal Government was too Weak. They
couldnt protect the borders, they couldnt raise
money (tax), they couldnt control trade.
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300 Question from Constitution
What item do Americans call the supreme law of
the land?
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300 Answer from Constitution
The Constitution
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400 Question from Constitution
Under the Articles of Confederation what type of
government did the US have?
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400 Answer from Constitution
A confederation Which is a joining of several
groups for a common purpose.
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500 Question from Constitution
The new Constitution, signed on September 17,
1787, gave the US what type of government?
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500 Answer from Constitution
A representative democracy or a republic
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Final Jeopardy
He was the oldest delegate at the Constitutional
Convention.
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Final Jeopardy Answer
Who is Benjamin Franklin?