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The Great Compromise
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Constitutional Convention
The Bill of Rights
100
the leader of the angry farmers who lost their farms in Massachusetts?
Who was Daniel Shays?
100
a plan that has something for both sides
What is a compromise?
100
the part of government that makes laws
What is the legislature?
100
In 1787 the delegates traveled there to discuss the Constitution.
Where is Philadelphia?
100
It protects people with a set of rules that leaders must obey.
What was the Bill of Rights?
200
George Washington, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison
Who were the Founding Fathers?
200
The name of the plan that the delegates from the larger states wanted
What was the Virginia plan?
200
the two parts of the legislature
What are the houses?
200
It helped the two sides in the Constitutional Convention to agree.
What was the Great Compromise?
200
Changes to the Constitution.
What are the amendments?
300
the Father of the Constitution
Who was James Madison?
300
The plan that gave each state the same number of delegates.
What was the New Jersey Plan?
300
something is made into law or approved formally
What is ratified?
300
It became law in 1789.
What was The Constitution
300
Number of amendments are in the Bill of Rights
What are ten?
400
He suggested a compromise to the question of how many representatives should each state have in the legislature?
Who was Roger Sherman?
400
two houses
In the Great Compromise, how many houses were to be in the legislature?
400
changes to the Constitution
What are amendments?
400
It became law in 1791.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
He asked for amendments to the Constitution.
Who was James Madison?
500
Alexander Hamilton and James Madison
Who wrote the "Federalist Papers"?
500
The number of representatives in the one house pleased the larger states and gave them more representatives.
What was based on state population?
500
the meeting that decided what should be in the Constitution
What is the Constitutional Convention?
500
It persuaded the people to vote for the Constitution.
What were The Federalist Papers?
500
protected under the Bill of Rights
What are freedoms?