Civic Literacy - Module 2 Lesson 1 - Key Terms

A governing document outlining government and laws is a ___________________.

• Constitution

• Delegate

• Rebellion

• Plan

_______________ was the meeting of Delegates in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to decide how America should be governed.

• Shays Rebellion

• Constitutional Convention

• Great Compromise

• New Jersey Plan

Series of armed attacks on government building in protest of high taxes _____.

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Nat Turners Rebellion

• Shays Rebellion

A representative from each state chosen to make choices in the best interest of the states ______.

• Delegates

• Federalists

• Gratifiers

• Compromises

Constitutional plan that called for a bicameral legislative branch with representation based on population

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• North Carolina Plan

• South Carolina Plan

Constitutional plan that called for a unicameral legislative branch with equal representation

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• North Carolina Plan

• South Carolina Plan

Compromise that combined the Virginia and New Jersey Plans. Created a bicameral legislature with a House of Representatives and a Senate

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Great Compromise

• Electoral College Compromise

• Federalist Compromise

Compromise that allowed for three out of five enslaved people to count for representation in Congress

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Great Compromise

• Electoral College Compromise

• Federalist Compromise

Compromise that set up the indirect election of the President by having state legislatures cast the final vote

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Electoral College Compromise

• Federalist Compromise

Division of power between the national government and the state governments

• Federalism

• Republicanism

• Dictatorship

• Oligopoly