The U.S. Constitution

A government in which the citizens rule through elected representatives

• Democracy

• Republic

• Socialism

• Monarchy

The belief that government should be based on the consent of the people

• Republicanism

• Confederation

• Federalism

• Republic

A document, adopted by the Second Continental Congress in 1777 and finally approved by the states in 1782, that outlined the form of government of the new United States

• Great Compromise

• Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

• Land of Ordinance

An alliance permitting states or nations to act together on matters of mutual concern

• Confederation

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Great Compromise

• Northwest Ordinance

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

• Great Compromise

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

A Law that established a procedure for the admission of new states to the Union

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

An uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers protesting increased state taxes in 1787

• Shays's Rebellion

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Ratification

• Confederation

American statesman and delegate to the Constitutional Convention; he is called the "father of the Constitution" for his proposals at the Constitutional Convention

• Roger Sherman

• John Dickinson

• Daniel Shays

• James Madison

American statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence; during the Constitutional Convention he proposed the Great Compromise that resolved the question of congressional representation

• Roger Sherman

• John Dickinson

• James Madison

• Daniel Shays

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

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Great Compromise

• Articles of Confederation

• Checks and balances