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Exploration 2: Who were the delegates
1.
Identify the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention by
answering each of the following questions:
- How
old was the delegate at the time of the convention?
- Was
the delegate born into wealth?
- Did
the delegate attend college? If so, which one?
- What
was the delegate's occupation?
- Did
the delegate own slaves?
2. Calculate:
- Who
was the youngest delegate? The oldest?
- How
many of the delegates were lawyers?
- How
many of the delegates had attended college?
- What
was the distribution of the delegates' occupations
3. Only 39 of the 55 delegates signed the Constitution. Explain
why each of the others did not.
4. Rhode Island was the only state to send no delegates to the
Constitutional Convention. Why didn't it send any delegates?
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