4.7 Interactive Knowledge Check: Constitutional Convention and Ratification

1. Where did the Constitutional Convention take place, and where was the Constitution signed?

2. The Constitution of the United States begins with which famous words?

3. Which of these was not one of the crucial compromises reached during the Constitutional Convention?

4. Which state declined to send representatives to the Convention?

5. What was true about the backgrounds of the delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention?

6. In the debates over representation in Congress, the large states favored the proportional representation of the _____________ while the smaller states favored equal representation proposed by the ______________

7. Under the terms of the Connecticut Compromise, ______________

8. After much debate about how to elect the president of the United States, what system did the delegates agree on?

9. During the debates about the presidency, some delegates, like Alexander Hamilton, wanted a ____________ while others, like Roger Sherman, wanted a __________

10. When it came to drawing up congressional districts based on each state’s population, it was decided that enslaved persons ______________

11. What did the Slave Trade Clause in the Constitution do?

12. As the Convention drew to a close, Benjamin Franklin remarked that, although there were several parts of the Constitution that he did not approve of, ______________

13. What was needed for the Constitution to become the law of the land?

14. Which of these famous founders refused to sign the Constitution?

15. Why did three of the delegates refuse to sign the Constitution on September 17, 1787?

16. What was true about the Constitutional Convention?

17. What was Franklin’s reply when asked what type of government the delegates had created?

18. Those who were opposed to the ratification of the Constitution were known as ______________

19. Which of these famous founders was not present at the Constitutional Convention?

20. The first state to ratify the Constitution—by unanimous vote—on December 7, 1787, was __________