On-Level: Creating Our American Government (Ch. 8) People

Name ______Per _____ On-Level: Creating our American Government (Ch. 8) People For each definition, identify the person being described. All of the people have full names that are capitalized. All names need to be spelled correctly.

1. ______Delegate to the Constitutional Convention from the state of Virginia; a leader in the fight against ratification who refused to sign the Constitution because it did not include a bill of rights.

2. ______Famous scientist and statesman; delegate from the state of Pennsylvania who lent his wit and wisdom to the Convention.

3. ______Delegate from Virginia who was the first recognized speaker at the Convention; he is credited with proposing the Virginia Plan.

4. ______Delegate from the state of New Jersey at the Convention who presented an alternative to the Virginia Plan that came to called the New Jersey Plan.

5. ______Delegate to the Convention from the state of New York he is credited with writing many of The Federalist Papers essays in 1788.

6. ______Delegate from Virginia who came out of retirement and was chosen as the president of the Convention.

7. ______Delegate who was elected in Virginia to attend the Convention but refused; he led the fight as an Anti-Federalist and would not vote for ratification of the Constitution unless it included a bill of rights.

8. ______Chosen as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the Confederation Congress; he wrote some of The Federalist Papers.

9. ______Delegate from the state of Connecticut at the Convention who proposed the Great Compromise, which became the basis for the first 3 articles of the Constitution.

10. ______Massachusetts farmer who led a failed rebellion on a federal arsenal in an attempt to provide debt relief to farmers in his state.

11. ______Delegate from Virginia at the Convention who took thorough notes of the convention’s proceedings, his notes are the most detailed picture of what took place; he did most of the actual writing of the Constitution and is often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution.”