Chapter 5.

2, Drafting the Constitution, Note Taking Guide

1. Nationalists Strengthen the Government

-Define Shays’s Rebellion
-What were the causes and consequences of Shays’s Rebellion?
A. Call for Convention
-Who was James Madison?
-Why did the nation’s leaders decide to meet to reexamine the Articles of Confederation?

2. Conflict Leads to Compromise

A. Big States Versus Small States
-Who was Roger Sherman?
-What was the Great Compromise? How did it settle the issue of political representation?
B. Slavery-Related Issues
-What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

3. Creating a New Government

-Who did the delegates divide power between?
A. Division of Powers
-Define federalism
-How did the delegates at the Constitutional Convention divide power between the states
and federal government?
B. Separation of Powers
-Define the three branches of the federal government, Legislative, Judicial, and Executive
-What was checks and balances? How did this limit the authority of the federal
government?
-Define electoral college