The Constitutional Convention: Facts and Figures - Part 2 White Verdana Black Check Answers 10 Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6 Question 7 Question 8 Question 9 Question 10 All 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution. In 1787, the Founding Fathers opened a convention in Philadelphia to write a Constitution for the following purpose: How were deputies to the Constitutional Convention chosen? Which state did not send deputies to the Constitutional Convention? Were the other twelve states represented throughout the Constitutional Convention? Where and when did the deputies to the Constitutional Convention assemble? What was the average age of the deputies to the Constitutional Convention? From what classes of society were the members of the Constitutional Convention drawn? How many members of the Constitutional Convention had been members of the Continental Congress? Were the members of the Constitutional Convention called "dlegates" or "deputies," and is there any distinction between the terms? Multiple Choice Multiple Choice Single Answer Multiple Choice Multiple Choice Single Answer Multiple Choice Multiple Choice Multiple Choice Single Answer True To declare independence from England. - Florida and Ohio No - About 24 Lawyers, Educators, and Soldiers Forty, and three others were later members. - False To create a federal government and define its powers. - Georgia and Arizona Yes - About 34 Planters, Ministers, and Physicians Thirty - To establish the 13 original states. - Rhode Island and Providence Plantations - About 44 Financiers and Merchants Forty, and two others were later members - False: Five delegates refused to sign. Answers will vary but should iinclude that they were appointed by the legislatures of the different states. Two of the deputies from New York left on July 10, 1787, and after that Hamilton, the third deputy, when he was in attendance did not attempt to cast the vote of his State. The New Hampshire deputies did not arrive until July 23, 1787; so that there never was a vote of more than eleven States. In Philadelphia, in the State House where the Declaration of Independence was signed. The meeting was called for May 14, 1787, but a quorum was not present until May 25. Some of the states called their representatives; some, deputies; and some commissioners, the terms being often mixed. In the Convention itself they were always referred to as deputies. Washington, for example, signed his name as deputy from Virginia. The point is simply that whatever they called themselves, they were representatives of their states. The general practice of historians is to describe them as delegates. B B Answers will vary. C A Answers will vary. C D C Answers will vary. - Virginia and Washington, D.C. - About 54 All of the above None -