chapter 3 vocab

a detailed written plan for government

• constitution

• bicameral

• confederation

a legislature consisting of two parts, or houses

• confederation

• bicameral

• articles of confederation

• ratify

a group of individuals or state government

• constitutional

• articles of confederation

• confederation

the first constitution of the United States

• ratify

• bicameral

• articles of confederation

• constitution

to vote approval of

• ratify

• constitution

• electoral college

• great compromise

a law, usually of city or country

• ratify

• constitution

• ordinance

• ordinance of 1785

a law that set up a plan for surveying western lands

• northwest ordinance

• ordinance

• ordinance of 1785

1787 law that set up a government for the northwest territory and a plan for admitting new states to the union

• ordinance

• ratify

• northwest ordinance

an uprising of Massachusetts farmers who did not want to lose their farms because of debt caused by heavy state taxes after the American Revolution

• ratify

• Shays Rebellion

• great compromise

meetings of state delegates in 1787 leading to adoption of a new Constitution

• great compromise

• electoral college

• constitutional convention