Wanted: A Just Right Government

Group of individuals united for a purpose

• Union

• Confederation

The colonists experience under the British rule left the newly independent Americans a little skittish. Basically, they wanted a government that couldn't do much. The started by drafting a document called the …

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

• The Constitution

1787, representatives from every state except Rhode Island meting Philadelphia to fix the Articles. They called this meeting the...

• Continental congress

• Constitutional Convention

The (Blank) explained how the 13 states would be governed as one nation.

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

Legislative Branch has 2 chambers

number of votes for each state depends on states population

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Great Compromise

Legislative branch has one chamber

Each state gets on vote

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Great Compromise

Second ad final attempt to write a document tat would govern the US, and we still follow it today.

• Constitution

• New Jersey Plan

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

What was the Great Compromise?