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Philadelphia
Convention
The Great
Compromise
Slavery
Framers or not
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2. This was the first plan of government for the United States.

3. What is the Philadelphia Convention?

4. This is a loose union of states with equal powers.

5. What is the a Confederation?

6. This government order, created in 1787, was a plan for adding new states to the United States.

7. What is the Northwest Ordinance?

8. In November of 1786, this group of angry farmers made people realize that they needed a stronger national government.

9. What is Shay’s Rebellion?

10. Delegates from every state went to this state to represent people’s interests at the Philadelphia Convention.

11. What is Pennsylvania?

12. The men who attended the Philadelphia Convention were given this name because they organized and wrote the U.S. Constitution.

13. What is a Framer?

14. The framers wanted to keep their discussions at the Philadelphia Convention private. Therefore whatever was said at the meeting would remain this for 30 years.

15. What is a Secret?

16. This is the only state that was NOT represented at the Philadelphia Convention because the people from this state were against changing the Articles of Confederation.

17. What is Rhode Island?

18. Many of the framers of the constitution had been leaders in this war.

19. What is the Revolutionary War?

20. Each state, no matter how large or small, had this many votes at the Philadelphia Convention.

21. What is one?

22. Delegates from this kind of state wanted each state to have the same number of representatives in Congress.

23. What is a small state?

24. Delegates from this kind of state wanted the number of representatives to be based on the state’s population.

25. What is a large state?

26. In this part of Congress, each state, large or small, has two representatives.

27. What is the Senate?

28. In this part of Congress, the number of representatives is determined by the number of people living in that state.

29. What is the House of Representatives?

30. This is a way to solve a problem where each side must be willing to give up something in order to gain something they want.

31. What is a Compromise?

32. This word means to put an end to something
This word means to put an end to something. The northern states wanted to do this to slavery.

33. What is abolish?

34. People in the business of slave trade got their slaves mostly from this continent.

35. What is Africa?

36. After much arguing, the framers agreed to this fraction of the slaves that would be counted for representation and taxation purposes.

37. What is 3/5?

38. Although this subject was a major argument between the framers, this word is found nowhere in the Constitution.

39. What is the word “slave?”

40. Eighty years after the signing of the Constitution, this war between the Northern and Southern states finally put an end to slavery.

41. What is the Civil War?

42. This Virginian was voted to be the president of the Philadelphia Convention.

43. Who is George Washington?

44. He is called the “Father of the Constitution” because his ideas about government greatly influenced the other delegates.

45. Who is James Madison?

46. This delegate from Pennsylvania was a highly respected printer, inventor, and writer.

47. Who is Benjamin Franklin?

48. Although he wrote the Declaration of Independence, he was NOT a framer of the Constitution because he was in France at the time.

49. Who is Thomas Jefferson?

50. Although he supported the separation from Great Britain by writing an important book called Common Sense, he was NOT at the Philadelphia Convention because he was in France.

51. Who is Thomas Paine?