Citizenship

The ___________________ was a meeting held in Philadelphia to create a new constitution.

Answer explanation

The Articles of Confederation did not give enough power to the federal government.

______________ was a delegate from Virginia who contributed many ideas that shaped the Constitution.

a plan giving supreme power to the central government and creating a bicameral legislature made up of two groups, or houses, of representatives.

• New Jersey Plan

• Great Compromise

• Popular Sovereignty

• Virginia Plan

a plan creating a unicameral, or one-house, legislature

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Cheese Plate

The _______ was an agreement that gave each state one vote in the upper house of the legislature and a number of representatives based on its population in the lower house.

The Three-Fifths Compromise stated that only three-fifths of a state's slaves were counted when deciding representation in Congress.

• True

• False

the idea that political power belongs to the people

• federalism

• anti-federalism

• checks and balances

• popular sovereignty

Answer explanation

The government works for you. You do not work for them.

legislative branch

• the president and the departments that help run the government

• a system of all the national courts

• a type of tree

• Congress of two houses that proposes and passes laws

executive branch

• a Congress of two houses that proposes and passes laws

• a system of all national courts

• the president and the departments that help run the government

a system of all the national courts

• judicial branch

• legislative

• executive

• circus