Vocabulary
The settlement of a disagreement wherein each side gives up something.
What is a compromise?
This famous American served as the president of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
This agreement satisfied both the large and small states by granting each the kind of representation they wanted in Congress.
What is the Connecticut Compromise or the Great Compromise?
The Framers made this early decision to make sure they could speak freely.
What is the need for secrecy?
This feature of the Connecticut plan appeased supporters of the New Jersey plan.
What are two representatives in the Senate?
The number of states needed to approve the proposed Constitution before it would go into effect.
What is nine out of thirteen?
Goods sold abroad.
What are exports?
He wrote the majority if the Virginia Plan, served as the Convention's floor leader, and kept "Notes" of the proceedings.
Who is James Madison?
These people were the source of several disagreements between the northern and southern states.
Who are slaves?
The delegates of the convention decided to do this instead of revising the Articles of Confederation.
What is writing a new constitution?
In this part of Congress, members would be apportioned according to population.
What is the House of Representatives?
The two populous and economically important states whose support was critical for the success of the new government.
What were Virginia and New York?
What is a legislature?
The representative from New Jersey who wrote a plan for the new government that closely resembled the Articles of Confederation.
Who is William Paterson?
The amount enslaved people would count toward state populations for determining representation and taxation levels at the time of the convention.
What is 3/5s of white populations?
The Framers followed Montesquieu's idea for limiting government when they decided to do this.
What is divide powers between three branches of government?
Southerners got to include enslaved peoples in their populations, but northerners insisted they be used for these two purposes.
What is taxation and representation?
These two Framers convinced delegates from New York and Virginia to ratify the new Constitution.
Who were Alexander Hamilton and George Washington?
A statement of a group's opinion or decision.
What is a resolution?
He saved the Convention by introducing the "Great Compromise," also known as the Connecticut Plan.
Southerners refused to consider the idea that Congress could tax these products.
What are the exports of any state?
Advocates of the New Jersey plan disliked this feature of the Virginia Plan because it took too much authority away from state legislatures.
What is a strong central government?
This underlying principle of the Constitution describes self-government based on the will of the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
These 85 essays explaining and defending the new Constitution were published in New York newspapers under the author Publius.
What were the Federalist papers?
The minimum number of people present for a legal meeting to occur.
What is a quorum?
He headed up the Committee on Style and revised the resolutions of the Constitution into its final form.
Who is Gouverneur Morris?
The amount of time that Congress would not take action on the slave trade.
What is 20 years?
This structure was the foundation for Congress under both the Virginia and Connecticut plans.
What is a bicameral legislature?
On this date, the Framers signed the new Constitution of the United States of America.
What is September 17, 1787?
This was promised in exchange for the conditional ratification of the new Constitution by several reluctant states.
What is a Bill of Rights?