Compromises at the Constitutional Convention

Read the text together and have students restate each idea in a few words before they match. Then have them compare their written answers with the answer key.

Compare the Virginia and New Jersey Plans, then explain the Great Compromise. The directions on the page read: Read the text. Then complete page 2. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade The Constitution and Bill of Rights, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with constitution principles. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Popular sovereignty means the people hold the power. The government gets its authority from the people, who choose their leaders by voting.

Posterity means future generations. The Preamble Line by Line also asks students for the meanings of Tranquility, domestic and Welfare.

It counted three out of every five enslaved people when deciding a state's representation and taxes. The rule gave slaveholding states extra power in Congress and treated enslaved people as less than whole people. It lasted until after the Civil War.