Government Standard 3 Vocabulary 1

The plan where the national government would have 

supreme power and a legislative branch would have two houses with representatives based on state population.

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution 

concerning basic individual rights.

• Bill of Rights

• Virginia Compromise

• New Jersey Compromise

• The Great Compromise

Delegates of the Constitutional Convention who developed 

the framework for the government and wrote the Constitution.

• Federalist

• Anti-Federalist

• Framers

• First Constitutional Convention

A collection of essays written in defense of the Constitution

• Leviathan

• Federalist Papers

• Articles of Confederation

• U.S. Constitution

Formally approved.

• Framers

• Bicameral

• Unicameral

• Ratified

A group who opposed the adoption of the U.S. Constitution

• Federalist

• Anti-Federalist

• Framers

• Bicameral

(1777) The document that created the first central 

government for the U.S.

• U.S. Constitution

• Virginia Plan

• Articles of Confederation

• Great Compromise

A group who supported the adoption of the U.S. 

Constitution and a strong national government.

• Federalist

• Anti-Federalist

• Framers

• Bicameral

A meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to 

organize a militia and made George Washington the commander.

• First Continental Congress

• Second Continental Congress

• Great Compromise

• Articles of Confederation

An agreement where three-fifths of the slave population 

would be counted when determining a state’s population for representation.

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise