Chapter 5: Shaping a New Nation

Enforces the laws, our President

• Legislative Branch

• Executive Branch

• Judicial Branch

Constitutional Convention’s agreement to est. a two-house national legislature, all states had equal representation in one house and representation based on population in the other.

• New Jersey Plan

• The Northwest Ordinance

• The Great Compromise

• The Virginia Plan

Makes the laws, our Congress

• Legislative Branch

• Executive Branch

• Judicial Branch

A document, adopted by the 2^nd Continental Congress in 1777 and finally approved by the states in 1781, that outlined the form of government of the new United States.

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Articles of Confederation

• The U.S. Constitution

• The Olive Branch Petition

A government in which the citizens rule through elected representatives.

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Republic

• Parliament

A law that established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Northwest Ordinance

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

A law that established a procedure for the admission of new states to the union.

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Land Ordinance of 1785

Interprets the laws, our Supreme Court

• Legislative Branch

• Judicial Branch

• Executive Branch

The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, added in 1791 and consisting of a formal list of citizens’ rights and freedoms.

• Declaration of Indpendence

• The Magna Carta

• The Bill of Rights

• The Declaration of Rights

A series of essays defending and explaining the Constitution, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.

• The Federalist

• Common Sense

• The Daily Constitution

• The Almanac