Articles of Confederation Vocab

Legislation passed by congress authorizing surveys and the division of public lands in the Western Region of the country 

• Land Ordinance of 1785  

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Proclamation Line

• Declaration of Independence

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

• American Revolution

• Boston Tea Party

• Shay’s Rebellion 

• Wilsons War

The article that created the first central government for the United States 

• Great Compromise 

• Three-Fifths Compromise 

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation 

The plan for the government proposed at the Constitutional Convention in which the national government would have supreme power and bicameral legislative branch with representation determined by state population 

• Virginia Plan 

• New Jersey Plan 

• Great Compromise 

• Federalist Papers 

A proposed plan at the Constitutional Convention to create a unicameral legislature with equal representation of states rather than representation by population 

• Bill of Rights 

• Three-Fifths Compromise 

• New Jersey Plan 

• Federalist Papers 

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 

• Bill of Rights 

• Great Compromise 

• Federalist Papers 

• Land Ordinance of 1785  

An agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention stating that only three-fifths of a state’s slaves would count when determining a state’s population for representation in the lower house of Congress 

• Articles of Confederation  

• New Jersey Plan 

• Federalism 

• Three-Fifths Compromise 

U.S. system of government in which power is distributed  between a central government and individual states 

• Three-Fifths Compromise 

• Great Compromise 

• Federalism 

• Articles of Confederation  

A series of essays that defended and explained the Constitution and tried to reassure Americans that the states would not be overpowered by the proposed national government 

• Federalist Papers 

• Bill of Rights 

• Great Compromise 

• Virginia Plan