Name: ________________________________
U.S. Government
Date: _________________________________
Period: ______________________________
Activity 2.2: Drafting the Consitution
_____ 1. Articles of Confederation
A. first to arrive to the convention before anybody else
and got started without the rest.
_____ 2. Constitutional Conventions
B. type of legislature with two houses.
_____ 3. Framers of the Constitution
C. Reasons why the Constitutional Convention met
_____ 4. Hot and Humid conditions
D. Another name for the Connecticut Compromise
_____ 5. Rhode Island
E. Favored larger states who wanted representation
based on population.
_____ 6. Horseback
F. Got frustrated with the debate over the New Jersey
Plan and the Virginia Plan.
_____ 7. James Madison
G. How delegates traveled to the Convention which
took too long to get there.
_____ 8. Virginia Plan
H. number of states who sent representatives to the
Convention.
_____ 9. New Jersey Plan
I. house of representatives based on population and
Senate based on equal representation. What this was
known as.
_____ 10. Connecticut Compromise
J. The type of government that was necessary.
_____ 11. Benjamin Franklin
K. First constitution who had weaknesses.
_____ 12. General Government
L. type of legislature with one house.
_____ 13. Connecticut’s Delegates
M. State that failed to attend the Constitutional
Convention.
N. could not tax and no standard currency.
_____ 14. Unicameral Legislature
_____ 15. Bicameral Legislature
O. Favored the smaller states who wanted equal
representation for all states.
_____ 16. Twelve
P. thought that general government was necessary for
us.
_____ 17. Virginia Delegation
Q. Very uncomfortable weather that delegates had to
deal with to ensure secrecy of the Convention.
_____ 18. Great Compromise
R. Philadelphia was the site for these.
_____ 19. Weaknesses in the A of C.
S. credited as the primary writer/author of the U.S.
Constitution.
_____ 20. Recommend revisions in the A of C
T. called this because they realized that they needed an
entirely new founding document.