Unit 3 Vocab

An agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention establishing that a state’s population would determine representation in the lower house of the legislature, while each state would have equal representation in the upper house of the legislature.

• Bill of Rights

• Great Compromise

• Virginia Plan

• 3/5 Compromise

The document that created the first central government for the United States was replaced by the Constitution in 1789

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• Great Compromise

• Articles of Confederation

The division of the government that proposes bills and passes them into laws.

• Executive Branch

• Legislative Branch

• Judicial Branch

• Checks and Balances

An uprising of Massachusetts farmers, led by Daniel Shay, to protest high taxes, heavy debt, and farm foreclosures.

• New Jersey Uprising

• Boston Massacre

• Shays' Rebellion

• Convention

An agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention stating that only three-fifths of the slaves in a state would count

• 3/5 Compromise

• Great Compromise

• Bill of Rights

• Ratification

The division of the federal government that is made up of the national courts - interprets laws, punishes criminals, and settles disputes between states

• Legislative

• Judicial

• Executive

• Congress

An official approval

• Amend

• Ratification

• Unicameral

• Great Compromise

A one-house legislature, one group making laws

• Bicameral

• Tricameral

• Unicameral

• Congress

The division of the federal government that includes the president and the administrative departments; enforces the nation’s laws

• Executive

• Legislature

• Judicial

• Cabinet

The first 10 amendments to the Constitution, ratified in 1791

• Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

• Great Compromise