Birth of a Nation - Vocabulary

First Ten Amendments to the US Constitution

• VA Statute of Religious Freedom

• Rhode Plan

• Bill of Rights

The way for states to share power; two-house congress, based on population or all equal

• Treaty of Paris

• Great Compromise

• Large-State Reconciliation

First part of the Constitution, it explains why the Constitution was written

• The Declaration of Rights

• Magna Carta

• The Preamble

Written rules and principles on how a government is run

• Constitution

• Corollary

• Addendum

The Articles of Confederation were

• the surrender of the US to Great Britain

• the first plan of government for the new US...1781-1787

• the decision to join the British Empire

An addition or change to a document

• amendment

• review

• treaty

to give formal approval

• repeal

• recall

• ratify

he led a revolt against the US government when the government decided to take his land

• George Cornwallis

• Nathan Hale

• Daniel Shays

Benjamin Banneker

• designed Ford's Theater

• mapped out the District of Columbia

• imported the cherry trees found in the US Capitol

He insisted the US Constitution have a Bill of Rights

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• George Mason