Creating the Constitution

Republic

• a government in which people elect representative to govern for them
• The Constitutional Convention's agreement to establish a two- house national legislature, with all states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house.
• a meeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the Articles of Confederation; resulted in the drafting of the Constitution.
• a meeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the Articles of Confederation; resulted in the drafting of the Constitution.

Articles of Confederation

• a document, adopted by the Continental Congress in 1777 and finally approved by the states in 1781, that outlined the form of government of the new United States.
• a law that established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains
• government to exercise checks, or controls, over the other branches.
• The Constitutional Convention's agreement to establish a two- house national legislature, with all states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house.

Land Ordinance of 1785

• a law that established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains
• a document, adopted by the Continental Congress in 1777 and finally approved by the states in 1781, that outlined the form of government of the new United States.
• a meeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the Articles of Confederation; resulted in the drafting of the Constitution.
• mal list of citizens’ rights and freedoms.

Northwest Territory

• Territory covered by the Land ordinance of 1785, which included land that formed the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.
• government to exercise checks, or controls, over the
• a meeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the Articles of Confederation; resulted in the drafting of the Constitution.
• a law that established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains

Northwest Ordinance

• It described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed and set conditions for settlement and settlers' rights.
• an uprising of debt ridden Massachusetts farmers in 1787
• a law that established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains
• a plan proposed by Edmund Randolph, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, that proposed a government with three branches and a two- house legislature in which representation would be based on a state's population of wealth.

Shays’s Rebellion

• an uprising of debt ridden Massachusetts farmers in 1787
• a plan proposed by Edmund Randolph, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, that proposed a government with three branches and a two- house legislature in which representation would be based on a state's population of wealth.
• a law that established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains
• It described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed and set conditions for settlement and settlers' rights.

Constitutional Convention

• a meeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the Articles of Confederation; resulted in the drafting of the Constitution.
• government to exercise checks, or controls, over the
• It described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed and set conditions for settlement and settlers' rights.
• a plan proposed by Edmund Randolph, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, that proposed a government with three branches and a two- house legislature in which representation would be based on a state's population of wealth.

Virginia Plan

• a plan proposed by Edmund Randolph, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, that proposed a government with three branches and a two- house legislature in which representation would be based on a state's population of wealth.
• a document, adopted by the Continental Congress in 1777 and finally approved by the states in 1781, that outlined the form of government of the new United States.
• The Constitutional Convention's agreement to establish a two- house national legislature, with all states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house.
• It described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed and set conditions for settlement and settlers' rights.

New Jersey Plan

• a plan of government proposed at the constitutional convention in 1787 that called for a one-house legislature in which ear state would have one vote.
• shared among the central (or federal) government
• The Constitutional Convention's agreement to establish a two- house national legislature, with all states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house.
• a document, adopted by the Continental Congress in 1777 and finally approved by the states in 1781, that outlined the form of government of the new United States.

Great Compromise

• The Constitutional Convention's agreement to establish a two- house national legislature, with all states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house.
• government to exercise checks, or controls, over the other branches.
• opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
• shared among the central (or federal) government