Writing the Constitution

Shelby Ouimette, Bailey Johnson, Nicole Riggs, Gracie Key, Libby Warren, Madeleine Carracino
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What do you know about the
Constitution and how it was
written?
 Historical Context Overview
QUESTION: What information do you already know about the Constitutional Convention?

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION: AMENDING THE ARTICLES CREATED: CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES

Date: May 14-September 17 -1787 Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

WHAT HAPPENED: Delegates met: FEDERALIST AND ANTI- FEDERALIST discuss NEW AMERICA, AMEND the
Articles of Confederation (lacked power to impose tax, lacked efficient central government, national
currency, slavery issues) and eventually they CREATED CONSTITUTION!

WHY: Economic trouble (trade relations, environment) caused Rebellions ex: Shays Rebellion

MAJOR ISSUES DISCUSSED: The major debates were over representation in Congress, the powers
of the president, how to elect the president (Electoral College), slave trade, and a bill of rights.

BILL OF RIGHTS: Civil and Individual rights to citizens..WELL KNOWN!! FREEDOM OF SPEECH, PRESS,
RELIGION

3 COMPROMISES: GREAT COMPROMISE, ELECTORAL COLLEGE, THREE-FIFTHS COMPROMISE

IMPORTANT:

KEY PLAYERS: GEORGE WASHINGTON, JAMES MADISON, GEORGE MASON, ROGER SHERMAN, ALEXANDER
HAMILTON
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnVmIrAiQB8
Alexander Hamilton

- Childhood
- King’s College
- Fought in Revolutionary War
- Elizabeth Schuyler
- Federalist
George Washington
● Delegate From VA

What is one thing you

● Washington had to be convinced to leave his retirement in Mount Vernon to attend
the convention.
● He was subsequently named the President of the convention.

already know about

● Quiet by nature
● Single executive
● With the support of their honorable leader Washington, the people at the
convention voted for ratification.
George Washington?
“Constitutional Convention.” George Washington's Mount Vernon,
www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/constitutional-convention/#:~:text=In 1787, George
Washington was,was unanimously elected its president.&text=Washington had to be convinced,life as a country squire.
James Madison

- Went to College of New Jersey, now called Princeton

- Believed in religious freedom
- Served as a colonel for Orange County militia in American Revolution
- Helped design the federal government system after studying world governments
- Democratic-Republican
- States’ Rights, individual freedom, supported France and their revolution
- Initiated War of 1812 because Britain kept abducting American sailors and
forcing them into their own navy, was not a greatly supported war
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