Plans and Compromises
Branches of Government
The First Ten
The Underrepresented
The Room Where It Happened
100

Madison's Virginia Plan wanted representation based on this.

What is state population?

100

The three branches of government. 

What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches? 

100

The First Ten amendments are called this. 

What are the Bill of Rights?

100

The preferred name of what the French called this indigenous group the "Iroquois." 

Who are the Haudenosaunee? 

100

The city where the Constitutional Convention of 1787 took place. 

What is Philadelphia?

200

Paterson's New Jersey Plan wanted this kind of representation for each state.

What is equal? 

200

Congress is made up of these two houses.

What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?

200
A defendant accused of a crime is protected by this amendment and may choose to "plead" it in order to stay silent. 

What is the Fifth Amendment?

200

This wife of John Adams urged her husband to "remember the Ladies." 

Who is Abigail Adams? 

200

This delegate from Virginia ended up being our country's 4th president.

Who is James Madison?

300

Both plans shared this as a similarity.  

What are three branches of government? 

300

The job of the Executive branch as it relates to laws.

What is enforce? 

300

A person wants to carry a firearm for self-defense relates to this amendment.

What is the Second Amendment?

300

This type of person was poor, did not own property, and may have agreed to work for a wealthy person for without pay in order to come to the colonies. 

    

Who are Indentured Servants? 

300

This delegate from the North has a town in New Jersey named after him.

Who is William Paterson?

400

The Great Compromise determined that the House of Representatives would based on this.

What is state's population? 

400

The job of the Judicial branch as it relates to the laws.

What is interpret?  

400

Police searching a person's home without a warrant relates to this amendment.

What is the Fourth Amendment?

400

This group of people made up 20 percent of all the non-Native American people in the colonies.

Who are African Americans? 

400

The Constitutional Convention took place to address this weak former constitution. 

What are the Articles of Confederation?

500

The Great Compromise determined that the Senate would be based on this. 

What is equal representation, or two senators per state? 

500

This system where each branch could "check" the powers of the other branches in certain circumstances was used as a way of controlling the power of government.

What are checks and balances? 

500

The First Amendment protects these 5 freedoms. 

What are freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.

500

This founding father ordered his army to invade Haudenosaunee lands and destroy them during the American Revolution. 

Who is George Washington? 

500

The number of months the Constitutional Convention lasted for. 

What is four?

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