Question

One goal of the calling of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to ______________________.

• A. facilitate interstate trade
• B. provide Americans with guaranteed freedoms
• C. keep the British from interfering in the United States politics
• D. promote states rights
• E. define the role of religion in American politics

Answer 1

The correct option is A facilitate interstate trade

One goal of the calling of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to facilitate interstates trade. According to James Madison's own diary from 1787, the purpose was to convene and revisit the Articles of the Confederation, which constituted the first "rule book", so to speak, drafted by the forefathers of the nation in order to decide how to rule it, and what regulations would be put together to maintain order.