Story Time: Fill in the Blanks to tell the story of the Constitutional Convention. Slavery Constitutional Convention legislative branch House of Representatives

New Jersey Plan Great Compromise judicial branch executive branch

Virginia Plan Senate 3/5th Compromise National

At the _ , representatives from each state created a new government. There were two plans for how many representatives from each state would be included in the national government. The _ based representation in Congress on each state’s population while the _ said representation in Congress should be equal for all states. The Virginia plan satisfied large states and the New Jersey Plan satisfied small states. The delegates decided to include both plans, this agreement is called the _. The _ was made up of 2 representatives from each state while the _ was based off the state’s population.
There was still the issue of _. The Northern and Southern states agreed on the _ in order to address the issue of representation for the enslaved population. The Constitution was careful to make the national government powerful but not too powerful. _ laws became the supreme law of the land and state laws could not contradict them. There would be 3 equal branches, the _ which makes the laws, the _ which interprets the laws, and the _ which enforces the laws.