Ch.2 Origins of American government

Groups of delegates who drafted the United States Constitution at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787

• Anti-Federalists

• Federalists

• Framers

• Delegates

Agreement that Congress should be composed of a Senate, in which the states would be equally represented, and a House, in which representation would be based on a State's population

• Articles of Confederation

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Connecticut Compromise

Called for 3 branches of government with a bicameral legislature in which each State's membership would be determined by its population or its financial support for the central government

• Articles of Confederation

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Connecticut Compromise

Plan of gov't adopted by the Continental Congress after the American Revolution; established a "firm league of friendship" among the states, but allowed few important powers to the central government

• Articles of Confederation

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Connecticut Compromise

Called for unicameral legislature in which each State would be equally represented

• Articles of Confederation

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Connecticut Compromise

Those persons who SUPPORTED ratification of the Constitution in 1787-88

• Federalists

• Anti-Federalists

Counting slaves as 3/5s of a person when determining the population of a State

• Articles of Confederation

• 3/5ths Compromise

• Virginia Plan

• Connecticut Compromise

Proposed by Ben Franklin in 1754, aimed to unite the colonies for trade, military, and other purposes; was turned down by the crown

• Albany Plan of Union

• Confederation

• Presiding officer

• Repeal

• Boycott

Document that gave settlers that right to establish a colony

• Magna Carta

• Petition of Right

• English Bill of Rights

• Charter

Signed by Charles I in 1628. Parliament refused to grant king's wishes until he signed it. Challenged divine right by saying that even monarchs had to follow the law

• Constitution

• Magna Carta

• Petition of Right

• English Bill of Rights