Question

During the Constitutional Convention, the delegates from South Carolina supported the ideas of the Virginia Plan over those of the New Jersey Plan. What was the reason for this?

South Carolina had an industrial economy.

South Carolina had a large population.


South Carolina did not have many slaves.


South Carolina did not have much wealth.

Answer 1

Answer: D- South Carolina did not have much wealth- because after the Revolutionary War South Carolina was faced with indebtedness and depression. Political tensions between the coastal elite and the backcountry folk in Massachusetts; better known as Shays’ Rebellion-were instrumental in bringing about the call for a stronger central government that could control that type of rebellion.