Ch. 3 Lesson 1 and 2 vocab

agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation

• Great Compromise

• 3/5th Compromise

• constitution

• confederation

a detailed, written plan for government

• constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• ordinance

• Federalist

a legislature consisting of two parts, or houses

• bicameral

• Shay's Rebellion

• Northwest Ordiance

• confederation

a group of individuals or state governments

• confederation

• constitution

• Ordinance of 1785

• federalism

the first constitution of the United States

• Articles of Confederation

• constitution

• confederation

• ordinance

to vote approval of

• ratify

• ordinance

• Shay's Rebellion

• Great Compromise

a law, usually of a city or county

• ordinance

• constitution

• federalism

• Three-Fifths Compromise

a law that set up a plan for surveying western lands

• Ordinance of 1785

• Northwest Ordinance

• Articles of Conferation

• Anti-Federalist

1787 law that set up a government for the Northwest Territory and a plan for admitting new states to the Union

• Northwest Ordinance

• Ordinance of 1785

• Great Compromise

• Federalist

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

• Shay's Rebellion

• Constitutional Convention

• Great Compromise

• Bicameral