Constitution Convention: Great Compromise

This plan called for a unicameral legislature in which each State would be equally represented

• Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise

• Connecticut Compromise

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

Bicameral means one house

• True

• False

James Madison was one of the writers of the Virginia Plan

• True

• False

The large states preferred the New Jersey plan because it allowed for equal votes and representatives in a unicameral legislature.

• True

• False

an agreement that Congress should be composed of a Senate, with States represented equally, and a House, with representation based on a State’s population

• Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise

• Great Compromise

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

called for a bicameral legislature with representation based on population or financial support 

• Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise
• Connecticut Compromise
• New Jersey Plan
• Virginia Plan

The delegates to the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 originally met to

• recommend revisions to the Articles of Confederation.
•  create an entirely new government for the United States.
• force the States to honor the Articles of Confederation.
• revise the Declaration of Independence.

Which leader is known as “The Father of the Constitution”?

• James Madison
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Adams
• George Washington

On which point did the Virginia and New Jersey plans disagree?

• whether or not delegates should take an oath of loyalty
•  how the states should be represented in Congress
• whether or not George Washington should be President
• whether or not Congress should have the power to make treaties

What was the main difference between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?

• One called for two branches of government and one for three

• the number of branches of the federal government

• the method for electing members of the two houses of Congress

• the number of representatives in Congress each state would have