Chapter 3 Vocab Part 1

a detailed, written plan for government

a legislature consisting of 2 parts​ (a)  

• bicameral
• constitution
• confederation
• ratify
• ordinance
• northwest ordinance

Group of individuals or state government

• confederation

• ratify

• ordinance

• Articles of Confederation

​ (a)   The first constitution​ of the United States

• Articles of Confederation
• Declaration of Independence
• Constitution

Match the following

• Ordinance

• group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president

• Ordinance of 1785

• law usually of a city or county

• Electoral College

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

• Northwest Ordiance

• law that set up a plan for surveying western lands

• Shay's Rebllion

• Uprising of Massachusetts farmers who didn't want to lose their farms

Meetings of state delegates in 1781 leading to adoption of a new Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Great Compromise

• Second Continental Congress

• Constitutional Convention

Match the following

• supporter of the Constitution

• Federalist

• Agreement providing a dual system

• Three-fifths Compromise

• federal and state government

• Great Compromise

• person who opposed the Constitution

• Anti-Federalist

• Slaves would count as 3/5 of a person

• Federalism

​ (a)   A group of people name by each state legislature​ to select the president and vice president​

• Electoral College
• Federalist
• Legislative branch
• Executive branch
• Judicial Branch

Series of essays written to defend the Constitution

• Preamble

• Article

• The Federalist Papers

• Amendment