Match each term, place, or person with the description that best matches it.
Question 1 options:
checks and balances
Constitutional Convention
William Paterson
Great Compromise
Virginia Plan
James Madison
Three-Fifths Compromise
popular sovereignty
legislative branch
federalism

1. This was held in May 1787, to discuss ways to improve the Articles of Confederation
2. This plan proposed creating a national government with a two-house legislature with representation determined only by population
3. This delegate played an instrumental role in the drafting of the Constitution.
4. He was the New Jersey delegate who presented the small state plan.
5. This agreement ended the debate between large and small states.
6.

Delegates looked to this system to establish the sharing of power between national and state governments.
7. This branch of government is responsible for proposing and passing laws.
8. The idea that political power rests in the hands of people
9. This agreement determine how slaves would be counted for representation and placed a ban on asking for an end to the slave trade.
10. The system designed to keep any one branch of government from becoming too powerful