Name: _________________________________ Period: ___ Date: _________________

TEKS 113.20.b.4.d

The Constitution, The Articles & Federalism: Crash Course U.S.

History #8

Fill-In the Blank

1. Delegates met in Philadelphia to revise Articles of Confederation but instead they wrote a
new charter of government called the ___________ .

2. All 55 delegates shared a desire for a __________ _________ __________. They agreed
that the government should have an executive, legislative, and judicial branches- should
be republican with ________ rather than direct democracy.

3. Conflicts between competing interests arose quickly at the Constitutional Convention in

Philadelphia between states with ______ _______ & those with __________
_____________.

4. ___________ __________ supported Jame’s Madison Virginia Plan which called for a
____-______ legislature w/ representation in both proportional to a state’s population.

5. _________ ________ rallied behind the New Jersey Plan. This called for a ______
______ house with _______ representation for each state, as with Articles of
Confederation.

6. Instead we got the ______ ____ which gave us two houses- A _________ ___
_________ w/ representation proportional to each state’s population, and a ________
with two members from each state.

7. House members serve __ year terms whole Senators serve ___ year terms.

8. House was designed to be ______ ___ ____ _______, while the Senate was created to
______ _____ ______.