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Constitutional Convention: Creating a New Nation Timeline Game

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About This Challenge

In this timeline game, players will engage with the topic of the Constitutional Convention: Creating a New Nation by placing events in their correct chronological order.

  • Players will learn about the key events leading up to and during the Constitutional Convention.
  • They will gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and compromises that shaped the creation of the U.S. Constitution.
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  • 1786-1787: Shays' Rebellion
  • September 11-14, 1786: Annapolis Convention
  • May 29, 1787: Virginia Plan proposed
  • June 15, 1787: New Jersey Plan proposed
  • June 18, 1787: Hamilton's plan for a strong central government
  • July 16, 1787: Connecticut Compromise reached
  • July 12, 1787: Three-fifths Compromise reached
  • October 27, 1787: Federalist papers published
  • September 17, 1787: Constitutional Convention concludes
  • September 17, 1787: Delegates sign the Constitution
  • 1787-1788: Ratification process begins
  • December 7, 1787: Delaware becomes first state to ratify the Constitution
  • June 21, 1788: New Hampshire becomes ninth state to ratify the Constitution
  • March 4, 1789: Constitution becomes effective
  • April 30, 1789: George Washington inaugurated as first President of the United States
  • June 8, 1789: Bill of Rights proposed by James Madison
  • December 15, 1791: Bill of Rights ratified by necessary states
  • June 1, 1796: Tennessee becomes sixteenth state to ratify the Constitution
  • March 4, 1791: Vermont becomes fourteenth state to ratify the Constitution
  • June 1, 1792: Kentucky becomes fifteenth state to ratify the Constitution

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