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Standard Indicator 8-3.2
SC’s role in developing new national government
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The problems of the United States government under the Articles of Confederation were similar to what?
What were the political tensions between the coastal elite and the backcountry folk in Massachusetts [Shays’
Rebellion] instrumental in bringing?
What did South Carolinians play a role in writing in 1787?
Why was the Philadelphia Convention called?
On the issue of amending the Articles or writing a new constitution, what did South Carolinians support?
What was the Virginia Plan?
Regarding the issue of how representation was to be allocated in the new legislature, what did South
Carolinians support?
What would this give South Carolina and other populous states?
What was the Great Compromise? Did South Carolinian’s support it?
What main issue did the Great Compromise raise? What did SC want?
What did Northern states want?
Did South Carolina support the Three-Fifths Compromise, that resolved this debate?
What were South Carolina delegates also concerned that a stronger national government might attempt to do?
To what did SC delegates object?
What compromise was reached?
What was this agreement known as?
What did SC support in regards to the President?
As representatives of the elite, what did SC advocate for concerning who could and couldn’t hold office? What
was this called?
What were states given the authority to do regarding voters?
In SC, what were the backcountry opponents of the new constitution in several states called? Why?
What did Charles Pinckney and the SC elite call themselves?
What did the SC elite argue in favor of?
Who won the vote in SC out of the Federalists and anti-Federalists?
What happened as a result?
How many other states had already joined the United States of America?
What prompted the Federalists to promise to add a Bill of Rights to the Constitution?
Who added the Bill of Rights to the Constitution?