Unit 3 Vocabulary Review (#1)

A written plan that provides the basic framework of a government

• constitution

• amendment

• federalism

• republicanism

Served as the first constitution of the United States from 1781-1789

• Articles of Confederation

• Northwest Ordinance

• Great Compromise

• U.S. Constitution

Law passed in 1787 to set up orderly procedures for the expansion of the U.S. and to settle the Northwest Territory, an area today known as the Midwest

• Northwest Ordinance

• Articles of Confederation

• Shays' Rebellion

• Elastic Clause

A law, rule, or theory that something is based on

• principle

• compromise

• amendment

• veto

An armed revolt in western Massachusetts that lasted from August 1786 to February 1787. Most participants were farmers frustrated with high taxes and the court system.

• Shays' Rebellion

• Great Compromise

• Northwest Ordinance

• Boston Tea Party

A way of reaching agreement in which each person or group gives up something in order to end an argument or conflict

• compromise

• ratify

• veto

• amendment

An agreement reached by large and small states during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that established a two-house legislature in the U.S.

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Northwest Ordinance

• Elastic Clause

A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses

• bicameral

• unicameral

• binary

• unitary

Agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that said 3 out of every 5 enslaved persons in a state would be counted when determining a state’s total population for legislative representation and taxation

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Great Compromise

• Northwest Ordinance

• Salutary Neglect