| A | B |
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| city of convention | Philadelphia |
| father of the Constitution | James Madison |
| Also known as the Virginia Plan | Large State Plan |
| also known as the small state plan | New Jersey Plan |
| the three branches of government | legislative, executive, judicial |
| a group of people responsible for making laws | legislature |
| the name of the national legislauture of the United States | Congress |
| The two houses of Congress | House of Representatives and the Senate |
| How membership in the House of Representatives would be determined | by population |
| how membership in the Senate is determined | two per state |
| people who are opposed to the Constitution | anti-federalists |
| the series of newspaper articles that were written in support of the Constitution | Federalist papers |
| president of the Constitutional Convention | George Washington |
| a style of government controlled by one person | Monarchy |
| a government controlled by elected representatives | republic |
| 3/5ths compromise | for purposes of counting population for representation, all white people would be counted. For every five slaves, three people would be added to the count of that state's population |
| the number of years Congress agreed not to interfere in the international slave trade | twenty |
| a list of the rights of the people or state | Bill of Rights |
| official approval of the Constitution | ratification |
| To make an agreement by giving up something you would be willing to sacrifice, in order to gain something important to you | compromise |
