| A | B |
| Framers | delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention |
| Virginia Plan | representation by population |
| New Jersey Plan | Representation by state |
| Connecticut Compromise | bicameral legislature with one house having representation by state and the other by population |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | Slaves counted as 3/5th of a person in determining representatioon |
| Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise | no taxing of exports in return nor not acting on slave trade for a period of 20 years |
| Federalists | favored ratification of the Constitution |
| Anti-Federalists | Opposed ratification of the Constitution |
| quorum | the number needed for a group to do business |
| the "Great Compromise" | because it settled the representation dispute between the states with large population and the states with small population |