Unit 4, Pt. A Vocab

financial support from the government

• subsidies

• ratification

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

Agreement that each slave counted as three-fifths of a person in determining representation in the House for representation and taxation purposes (negated by the 13th amendment)

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Commerce Compromise

• Great Compromise

• Bill of Rights

congress could tax imports but not exports

• Commerce Compromise

• Constitutional Convention

• subsidies

• Great Compromise

a meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitution

• Constitutional Convention

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Commerce Compromise

• U.S. Constitution

"Large state" proposal for the new constitution, calling for proportional representation in both houses of a bicameral Congress. The plan favored larger states and thus prompted smaller states to come back with their own plan for apportioning representation.

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Bill of Rights

• Commerce Compromise

The proposal at the Constitutional Convention that called for equal representation of each state in Congress regardless of the state's population.

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• U.S. Constitution

• Great Compromise

A document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the United States is governed.

• U.S. Constitution

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Bill of Rights

Compromise made by Constitutional Convention in which states would have equal representation in one house of the legislature and representation based on population in the other house

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Commerce Compromise

• Constitutional Convention

formal approval

• ratification

• subsidies

• anti-federalists

• federalists

The first ten amendments to the Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• ratification

• U.S. Constitution

• Federalists