1 / 10

Creating A Constitution

Creating A Constitution. Constitution = a document stating the rules under which a government will operate. Creating a Constitution Targets. I can determine the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

ophira
Download Presentation

Creating A Constitution

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Creating A Constitution Constitution = a document stating the rules under which a government will operate

  2. Creating a Constitution Targets • I can determine the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. • I can evaluate and debate why the Constitutional Convention decided to create an entirely new framework of government. • I can describe what shaped the outcome of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 • I can explain how compromises solved crises in the Constitutional Convention.

  3. Saving a Nation Narrator 1: George Read: Narrator 2: William Paterson: James Madison: David Brearley: Ben Franklin: Sarah Franklin Bache: Mary Bache: Roger Sherman: George Washington: Charles Pinckney: James Wilson: George Mason: Robert Morris: Paragraph 1: Alexander Hamilton: Paragraph 2: Governor Morris Paragraph 3: Edmund Randolph: Paragraph 4: Luther Martin: Martha Cook:

  4. Convention Delegates • Early on, the delegates voted to keep their debates secret • 55 men from 12 states took part in the convention • George Washington was voted president of the convention • Ben Franklin (81), Alexander Hamilton (32), James Madison (36)

  5. Saving a Nation • Why do you think cannons boomed when Washington came to the city? • What type of government did Madison and his friends want the new nation to have? • Why do you think some people feared Madison’s ideas about government?

  6. Saving a Nation • Why did the delegates decide to keep their meetings secret? • What was Randolph’s plan?

  7. Saving a Nation 6. List three things that Martha Cook believes the new government should do.

  8. Saving a Nation • What did Sherman propose to make both small and large states happy? Explain his plan.

  9. Saving a Nation • Why did the convention fail to ban slavery? • What was Franklin’s suggestion to Washington on how to count the slaves?

  10. Summary Question What, in your view, was the most important decision made by those who wrote the Constitution?

More Related