Constitution Padlet by Bennett Fryman https://padlet.com/bennett_fryman_216/yy5jremjk8ib Great information for great students en-us 2018-11-06 20:19:47 UTC 2026-02-22 12:11:55 UTC hello@padlet.com Background Info about the Constitutional Convention 1787 bennett_fryman_216 https://padlet.com/bennett_fryman_216/yy5jremjk8ib/wish/301222284 Year: 1787
President: George Washington
Number of Delegates: 55
Purpose for the Convention: To construct a new constitution for the US
Location: Philadelpia Pennsylvania  ]]> 2018-11-06 20:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/bennett_fryman_216/yy5jremjk8ib/wish/301222284 Issue #1 Big States V Small States bennett_fryman_216 https://padlet.com/bennett_fryman_216/yy5jremjk8ib/wish/301225436 The big states v small states was where the little states wanted it to be equal in representation which was the New Jersey Plan. The big states wanted proportional representation which was known as the Virginia Plan. The compromise that was agreed on was the Great Plan or the Connecticut Plan which was where the House of Representatives was proportional to how big the state was and the Senate was where every state got two representative ]]> 2018-11-06 20:40:02 UTC https://padlet.com/bennett_fryman_216/yy5jremjk8ib/wish/301225436 Picture for the New Jersey and Virginia plan and the Great Compromise bennett_fryman_216 https://padlet.com/bennett_fryman_216/yy5jremjk8ib/wish/301228781 2018-11-06 20:47:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bennett_fryman_216/yy5jremjk8ib/wish/301228781 Issue #2 Slaves being counted to the population bennett_fryman_216 https://padlet.com/bennett_fryman_216/yy5jremjk8ib/wish/301230085 Slaves were a big issue in creating the new constitution. The North didn't want to count them as population and the South did. The South believed that their slaves should be counted as population. The North thought that they should be counted as taxes and property. So they decided that 3/5 of the slaves would be counted as population as well as 3/5 would be counted towards tax.  ]]> 2018-11-06 20:50:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bennett_fryman_216/yy5jremjk8ib/wish/301230085 Issue #3 trade North v South bennett_fryman_216 https://padlet.com/bennett_fryman_216/yy5jremjk8ib/wish/301233797 The North and the South didn't believe in how they were trading so they changed it so that each part would get half of the traded products]]> 2018-11-06 20:58:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bennett_fryman_216/yy5jremjk8ib/wish/301233797 Issue #4 bennett_fryman_216 https://padlet.com/bennett_fryman_216/yy5jremjk8ib/wish/301234357 The anti people wanted the states to have the power and the federalist want the central government to have the power.]]> 2018-11-06 21:00:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bennett_fryman_216/yy5jremjk8ib/wish/301234357