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Mr. M's Book Share Page Use this form to help you organize your Book Share. Treat this form like it is your final copy. In other words, I am looking for good, complete thoughts that demonstrate your best effort! - my plot notes...use this to help with my review! - version 2 - notes from my group


 * __PLOT BEGINNING- MIDDLE- END-__**

Characters- some of the most important characters were George Washington (president of convention, president of U.S.), James Madison (delegate from Virginia), Ben Franklin (delegate), Edmund Randolph (another delegate from Virginia, Alexander Hamilton, William Paterson, John Adams (vice president of U.S., serving as our ambassador in England).

__BEGINNING –start in 1774 1st Continental Congress meet. common concern Great Britain because the British people wanted some basic rules to keep them together. 1776 Declaration of Independence was signed. 1786 was obvious that changes were needed and people were in debt. George Washington called a convention__

__MIDDLE- Many arguments, many speeches and many plans but nobody agreed to any of them. Some delegates afraid of what might happen in the convention. Some bigger states were ganging up on the little states. Some delegates leave because they don’t like how the convention was going. The convention droned on and on and the delegates worried. Madison tried to point out that the large states would have no reason to gang up on the little. It was such a relief to have this over with the Convention decided to put a team of to make a document of their decisions to be like a Constitution. The delegates got a ten day vacation from July 26th to August 6th. Then it was 6 weeks of work the convention reassembled. Delegates sign the paper that refered to the constitution and some don’t sign. Delegates that wanted the constitution were called Federalist .Delegates that were against were callked Anti-Federalist. Those who were Anti-federalist called themselves the true federalist and they called the delegates that wanted the constitution Nationalist__ __They call the states one by one for conventions and vote if to have a constitution.__

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