Weekend Update

• Chapter 5, Lessons 1 & 2 test will be on Monday, 11/18 (A-Day) & Tuesday, 11/19 (B-Day).  There will be 25 questions, and the study guide that was passed out on Thursday & Friday is posted below.  The study guide is NOT due for a grade.
• The extra credit project (worth 25 points) will be due on Monday, 11/18 (A-Day) & Tuesday, 11/19 (B-Day).  Don't forget the mobile, paper with explanations, and bibliography with at least 2 sources.  The directions for this project were posted on the previous post.
• All students that scored below an 80% on their Chapter 4 Test were given a worksheet (or 2 depending on the grade) to complete for a recycled grade.  These recycling worksheets will be due on Monday, 11/18 (A-Day) & Tuesday, 11/19 (B-Day).
• B-Day students with failing grades were given a scholarship warning on Friday, 11/15 to be signed by a parent/guardian and returned on Tuesday, 11/19.  A-Day students with failing grades will receive their scholarship warning on Monday, 11/18, and will need to return it signed by Wednesday, 11/20.  Parents/guardians of any students that fail to return a signed scholarship warning will receive an email/phone call on Tuesday or Wednesday.   

Chapter 5, Lessons 1 & 2 Study Guide

• Study the vocabulary words.
  1.   Why did most state constitutions include a bill of rights?
  2.   Why did the Articles of Confederation create such a weak central government?
  3.   How did the weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation lead to Shay’s Rebellion?
  4.   Name the features of the New Jersey Plan.
  
  
  5.   Name the features of the Virginia Plan.
  
  
  6.   Why did small states fear the Virginia Plan?
  7.   Who were the Federalist and what were their arguments in support of the proposed Constitution?
  8.   In the opinion of the Anti-Federalist, what important measures were missing from the proposed Constitution?
  9.   What was the purpose of James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay in writing The Federalist?
  10.               What is a constitution?
  11.               What is a confederation?
  12.               Why did the states form a confederation?
  13.               What problems after the war caused Shays’s Rebellion?
  14.               What was Shay’s Rebellion?
  15.               How did the compromise over trade regulation satisfy both Northern and Southern interest?
  
  
  16.               What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?
  
  
  17.               What disagreement did the Three-Fifths Compromise settle?
  
  
  
  
  18.               Why did the delegates decide to keep the meetings secret?
  
  
  19.               What was the Great Compromise?
  
  
  
  
  20.               Why did delegates think the Articles of Confederation need to be replaced?