1. Riddle me this Batman… How do you count 3/5 of a person?
What was the Great Compromise?

2. SS8H4 The student will describe the impact of events that led to the ratification of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
a. Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of both the Georgia Constitution of 1777 and the Articles of Confederation and explain how weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation led to a need to revise the Articles.
b. Describe the role of Georgia at the Constitutional Convention of 1787; include the role of Abraham Baldwin and William Few, and reasons why Georgia ratified the new constitution.

3. Georgia Constitution of 1777
Eight counties formed
Unicameral (one house) legislature created
Legislature most powerful
Weak executive appointed by legislature
Governor one-year term
Why was the executive so weak?

4. Articles of Confederation
First Government of the United States
Created to wage the Revolutionary War
One Branch = Legislative
One Chamber in the Legislature

5. Seal of the United States Front Side

6. Weaknesses of Articles of Confederation
Money system – every state had its own
Could not regulate interstate trade
Other countries had little respect for us
Difficulty in passing legislation and almost impossible to amend

7. "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God"

8. FEAR OF EXECUTIVE POWER
Articles of Confederation
No executive
Power to the legislature
Georgia Constitution of 1777
Governor appointed
One year term
No power of veto

9. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
FIX the Articles of Confederation
Too broken to fix
James Madison the man with the plan

10. Virginia Plan Proposed by Madison (Virginia)
Legislature representation based on population = proportional representation
Strong central government with power to regulate interstate trade, wage war, print money, (all of the things in the Preamble)

11. New Jersey Plan William Patterson proposed it (New Jersey)
Favored small states
Equal representation
Weaker central government than Virginia Plan

12. Great Compromise New Jersey Plan Virginia Plan
Proportional Representation
How to count slave population for the purpose of representation?
Count them all!
New Jersey Plan
Equal Representation
How to count slave population for the purpose of representation?
Count none of them!

13. So What’s the Deal
3/5 Compromise

15. Great Seal of the United States Reverse Side

16. SS8H5 The student will explain significant factors that affected the development of Georgia as part of the growth of the United States between 1789 and 1840.

17. Explain the establishment of
the University of Georgia,
Louisville, and the spread of
Baptist and Methodist
churches.

18. b. Evaluate the impact of land policies pursued by Georgia; include the headright system, land lotteries, and the Yazoo land fraud.