Test Review U5: Articles of Confederation - Convention Review

Plan for United States government in which states joined together in a loose union---under this plan the states had the most power and the central (federal) government was weak

• Member of Legislative Branch

• Each state gets equal representation - 2 per state

• Articles of Confederation

• census

Meeting held in Philadelphia to initially revise the Articles of Confederation. Founding Fathers decided an entire new plan of government, or constitution, was needed.

• Three-fifths compromise

• What did the Northwest Ordinance create

• compromise

• Constitutional Convention

Farmers in Massachusetts, led by Daniel Shays, rebelled against the state government because many were in debt and were losing their farms----showed the central (federal) government was weak

• Founding Fathers/Framers

• New Jersey Plan

• Shay's Rebellion

• Census

Authored the Virginia Plan. Many principles of the Constitution are based on his ideas. Madison is known as the "Father of the Constitution"

• James Madison

• Census

• Founding Fathers/Framers

• Compromise

Plan that called for 3 branches of government, with a 2 house legislature that had representation in both houses determined by population---this plan favored large states

• Judicial Branch

• Founding Fathers/Framers

• members of the Judicial Branch

• Virginia Plan

Plan that called for 3 branches of government with a 1 house legislature in which representation for each state was equal---this plan favored small states

• Constitutional Convention

• New Jersey Plan

• What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

A way of settling problems in which both sides give in a little

• census

• Constitution

• compromise

• veto

Plan created by Roger Sherman that solved the conflict between the two plans that were presented. There would be 2 houses in the legislature, the House of Representatives, with representatives being determined by state population, and a Senate, with each state having an equal number of representatives (2).

• Articles of Confederation

• Virginia Plan

• Founding Fathers/Framers

• Great Compromise

Southern states wanted slave to be counted in population, northern states did not, the compromise reached would count each slave as 3/5ths of a person

• New Jersey Plan

• Checks and Balances

• James Madison

• Three-fifths Compromise

The sharing of power between a central (federal) government and its political subdivisions, or states

• Compromise

• Federalism

• Virginia Plan

• Shay's Rebellion