Plans and Compromises
Madison's Virginia Plan wanted representation based on this.
What is state population?
The three branches of government.
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches?
The First Ten amendments are called this.
What are the Bill of Rights?
The preferred name of what the French called this indigenous group the "Iroquois."
Who are the Haudenosaunee?
The city where the Constitutional Convention of 1787 took place.
What is Philadelphia?
Paterson's New Jersey Plan wanted this kind of representation for each state.
What is equal?
Congress is made up of these two houses.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
What is the Fifth Amendment?
This wife of John Adams urged her husband to "remember the Ladies."
Who is Abigail Adams?
This delegate from Virginia ended up being our country's 4th president.
Who is James Madison?
Both plans shared this as a similarity.
What are three branches of government?
The job of the Executive branch as it relates to laws.
What is enforce?
A person wants to carry a firearm for self-defense relates to this amendment.
What is the Second Amendment?
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?
This delegate from the North has a town in New Jersey named after him.
Who is William Paterson?
The Great Compromise determined that the House of Representatives would based on this.
What is state's population?
The job of the Judicial branch as it relates to the laws.
What is interpret?
Police searching a person's home without a warrant relates to this amendment.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This group of people made up 20 percent of all the non-Native American people in the colonies.
Who are African Americans?
The Constitutional Convention took place to address this weak former constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The Great Compromise determined that the Senate would be based on this.
What is equal representation, or two senators per state?
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?
The First Amendment protects these 5 freedoms.
What are freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
This founding father ordered his army to invade Haudenosaunee lands and destroy them during the American Revolution.
Who is George Washington?
The number of months the Constitutional Convention lasted for.
What is four?