Creating the Constitution

The first written plan of government for the United States was called _______________________.

• Articles of Confederation

• The Constitutional Convention

• The Federalist Papers

• The Great Compromise

A written plan that provides the basic framework of a government.

• A Resolution

• The Fundamental Orders

• An Amendement

• A Constitution

A meeting held in Philadelphia in 1787 at which delegates from the states wrote the U.S. Constitution.

• Congress

• Constitutional Convention

• First Continental Congress

• The Northwest Ordinance

The plan of government adopted at the Constitutional Convention that established a two-house Congress. In the House of Representatives, representation from each state is based on state population. In the Senate, each state is represented by two senators.

• The Great Compromise

• The Three-Fifths Compromise

• The Federalist Papers

• The Articles of Confederation

A law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed.

• The Northwest Territory

• The Northwest Ordinance

• Republic

• Constitution

A region of the United States bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Great Lakes. The region was given to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

• Republic

• Ratify

• Northwest Ordinance

• Northwest Territory

To formally approve a plan or an agreement. The process of approval is called ratification.

• Enlightenment

• Republic

• Ratify

• Electoral College

An agreement made at the Constitutional Convention stating that enslaved persons would be counted as three-fifths a person when determining a state's population for representation in the House of Representatives.

• The Great Compromise

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Three-Fifths Compromise

• The Federalist Papers

What was the reason delegates met in Philadelphia?

• revise the Articles of Confederation

• Write the Declaration of Independence

• Write the US Constitution

Who is known as "the Father of the Constitution"?

• George Washington

• James WIlson

• James Madison

• Ben Franklin