Fast & Curious Unit 4 Vocabulary

To sign or give formal consent, making it officially valid.

• Ratify

• Amendment

• Compromise

• Republic

A secret meeting to replace the failing United States government with a second more powerful government.

• Constitutional Convention

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

• Virginia Plan

The official name for the Ohio River Valley and its surrounding lands.

• Shays Rebellion

• Great Compromise

• Northwest Ordinance

• Northwest Territory

A rebellion of Massachusetts farmers over new taxes placed on farmers without their consent.

• 3/5 Compromise

• Ratify

• Shays' Rebellion

• Northwest Territory

The first government of the United States created during the American Revolution to replace England's Parliament.

• New Jersey Plan

• Constitution

• Virginia Plan

• Articles of Confederation

Larges states wish to create a two house (bicameral) government based on population with a President to run the country.

• 3/5 Compromise

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Great Compromise

Small states wish to create a one house (unicameral) Congress based on one vote per state with a Supreme Court to handle disagreements between states.

• 3/5 Compromise

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Great Compromise

The current form of government in the United States

• Dictatorship

• Democracy

• Democratic-Republic

• Republic

A way of reaching agreement in which each person or group gives up something that was wanted in order to end an argument or dispute.

• Compromise

• bi-cameral

• Uni-cameral

• Ratify

The work of Roger Sherman, the government will have three branches. Congress (Legislative) will have two houses, a Senate based on equality and House of Representatives based on population with a President (Executive) and a Supreme Court (Judicial)

• Sherman Compromise

• 3/5 Compromise

• Presidential Compromise

• Great Compromise