Creating a Republic

A loose organization of states.

• constitution
• confederation
• bi-cameral
• territory

Latin for "two-house". [Hint: It's the kind of legislature we have in our government]

• constitution
• confederation
• bi-cameral
• territory

An area of land not yet a state.

• constitution
• confederataion
• bi-cameral
• territory

The government of all the states.

• constitution

• confederation

• territory

• central government

A written or formal plan of government.

• constitution

• confederation

• territory

• central government

Suggested the New Jersey Plan for representation in Congress.

• Edmund Randolph

• Thomas Jefferson

• William Paterson

• George Washington

Suggested the Virginia Plan for representation in Congress.

• Edmund Randolph

• Thomas Jefferson

• William Patterson

• William Patterson

Led the Constitutional Convention.

• Edmund Randolph

• Thomas Jefferson

• William Patterson

• George Washington

Missed the Constitutional Convention because he was in France as a foreign minister [diplomat].

• Edmund Randolph

• Thomas Jefferson

• William Patterson

• George Washington

Led a group of Massachusetts farmers in an armed protest of the government and its laws.

• Roger Sherman

• Daniel Shays

• James Madison

• Sherman Williams