Read each section in History Alive! CHAPTER 8. The textbook is uploaded on our website. Then answer the question in the corresponding box.

8.4 Opening the Constitutional Convention What beliefs did the delegates share? What ideas divided them?

8.5 Issue: How Should States Be Represented in the New Government? How did the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan differ?

8.6 Resolution: The Great Compromise What compromise did the delegates create to resolve the issue of state representation?

8.7 Issue: How Should Slaves Be Counted? How did the views of delegates from northern states differ from those of delegates from southern states on this issue?  

8.8 Resolution: The Three-Fifths Compromise What compromise did the delegates create to resolve this issue?  

8.9 Issue: How Should the Chief Executive Be Elected? Why didn’t the delegates agree on how the national executive should be chosen?

8. 10 Resolution:The Electoral College What compromise did the delegates create to resolve this issue?

8. 12 The Constitution Goes to the Nation What were The Federalist Papers, and why were they written?  

8.11 The Convention Ends Why did some delegates refuse to sign the final draft of the Constitution?