HISTORY TEST
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- James Madison
- Father of the constitution because he was the author of it's basic plan of goverment
- 1787
- Deleware becomes first state to ratify constitution
- Independence Hall (Philadelphia State House)
- Building where the constitution was signed
- 1787
- Northwest Ordinance
- 3/5 Compromise
- 5 slaves equal 3 free people; the way slaves were counted for representation in congress
- Executive Branch
- The branch that carries out the laws
- Ratify
- To give approval of
- Legislative
- Branch of Goverment that includes the Senate
- Alexander Hamilton
- Wrote Federalists papers which influenced people to agree to the constitution
- 1788
- The Federalists Papers
- Virginia Plan
- Plan proposed at the Constitutional Convention to give more power to the large states
- Federalist Papers
- The name of the series of papers written to support the new federal goverment
- Manumission
- freeing of slaves
- Republic
- A goverment where citizens rule through elected representatives
- James Madison
- His notes from the Constitutional proceedings gave us the most information about what occurred
- Federalists
- Supporters of the constitution
- Bicameral
- 2 houses in the legislature
- Philadelphia
- City wherethe constitutional convention took place
- Depression
- A period of low economic activity and a wide spread of unemployment
- Robert Morris
- Proposed a 5% tax on imported goods to help pay national debt
- 1787
- Virginia Plan
- 1790
- Rhode Island becomes final state to ratify Constitution
- Richard Allen
- Philadelphia preacher
- Rhode Island
- State that did not send a delegate to the convention to revise the Articles of Confederation
- Montesquieu
- French writer who declared that powers of goverment should be seperated and balanced against each other
- Checks and Balances
- System used to maintain seperation of power
- Great Compromise
- Two house legislature where the House of Representatives number of representatives is dependent on the states population and the senates number of representatives is equal for each state
- Depreciate
- To lose value
- New Jersey Plan
- Plan proposed by the small states
- Enlightenment
- A movement that spread the idea that knowlege, reason, and science could improve society
- Amendment
- something added to the constitution
- Petition
- Formal request
- Rhode Island
- Last state to ratify the constitution
- Five
- How many states were represented at the Annapolis Convention
- Judicial
- Branch of Goverment that includes the Supreme Court
- 1786
- Shays Rebellion
- House of representatives
- House of congress that determines the number of its members by the population of the states
- Philadelphia
- Site of the meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation
- 1791
- Bill of Rights added to Constitution
- 1779-1781
- Financial Depression
- George Washington
- Elected as presiding officer of the Great Convention
- Roger Sherman
- Was the only man to sign the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution
- Daniel Shay
- lead angry famers in Shay's Rebellion
- Constitution
- A formal plan of goverment
- 1785
- Land Ordinance
- Patrick Henry
- Against the constitution
- Ordinance
- A law
- 1777
- Articles of Confederation
- Madison, Hamilton, Jay
- wrote Federalists papers
- 1787
- New Jersey Plan
- Antifederalists
- people against the constitution
- Roger Sherman
- Author of the Great Compromise
- Northwest Ordinance
- Provided the orderly expansion into the west
- Legislative Branch
- A branch that makes the laws
- New Jersey Plan
- Number of representatives would be one vote for each state; smaller states liked this
- Compromise
- an agreement where two sides give something up so it can be equal
- Federalism
- Sharing power between federal and state goverments
- Executive
- Branch of Goverment that includes the President and his cabinet
- 1781
- Robert Morris proposes Import Tax
- Governor Morris
- Wrote the final draft of the constitution
- Electoral College
- a special group of voters selected by their states voters to vote for the president
- John Locke
- English philosopher whe believed that all people have "natural rights"
- Ben Franklin
- 80 year old at convention
- Revise the Articles of Confederation
- what was the original purpose of the Great Convention
- Deleware
- 1st state to ratify the constitution
- Judicial Branch
- Branch that interprets the law
- Annapolis, Maryland
- Site of the meeting called by Virginia and Maryland to discuss the Articles of Confederation
- 1787
- Constitution
- Checks and Balances
- a system where no branch is more powerful than the other
- Virginia Plan
- Number of representatives would be according to the population of the State
- Magna Carta
- England's lawmaking body that had control over governing the English Bill of Rights