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Vocabulary
People
Creating the Constitution
Slavery
Constitutional Convention
100
An agreement between two or more sides in which each side gives up some of what it wants.
What is compromise?
100
The person who led a rebellion, forcing the courts in Massachusetts to close so they couldn't confiscate farmers' lands.
Who is Daniel Shays?
100
The reason some delegates wouldn't sign, and some states wouldn't approve the Constitution.
What is no Bill of Rights?
100
The two states that didn't limit slavery.
What are Georgia and South Carolina?
100
The oldest person at the Constitutional Convention.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
A period when economic activity slows and unemployment increases.
What is a depression?
200
This person was the most prepared member at the Constitutional Convention, who is sometimes known as the "Father of the Constitution".
Who is James Madison?
200
The presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
200
The fraction of a person that each slave was counted as.
What is three-fifths?
200
The number of states that needed to approve the constitution in order for it to be adopted.
What is nine?
300
The vocabulary word that means corresponding in size.
What is proportional?
300
The New York lawyer who proposed calling a convention to discuss trade issues and consider amending the Articles of Confederation.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
300
The name of the plan that proposed a one-house Congress with equal representation for each state.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
300
The religious group that organized an anti-slavery society.
Who are the Quakers?
300
The city in which the Constitutional Convention was held.
What is Philadelphia?
400
A list of rights that the government cannot take away.
What is a bill of rights?
400
The delegate that proposed the New Jersey Plan.
Who is William Paterson?
400
The plan that our national government was based on, which included a two-house Congress, a chief executive, and a court system.
What is the Virginia Plan?
400
The number of years that slavery was protected from interference from Congress.
What is 20 years?
400
The number of delegates that refused to sign the Constitution.
What is three?
500
The vocabulary word that means the freeing of individual enslaved persons.
What is manumission?
500
The delegate that proposed The Great Compromise.
Who is Roger Sherman?
500
The person who introduced the Virginia plan, which was largely the work of another delegate.
Who is Edmund Randolph?
500
The name of the society formed to help free slaves make their way in society.
What is the Free African Society?
500
The exact date on which the Constitution was signed by the delegates.
What is September 17, 1787?