Articles of Confederation and Constitution Review

The first set of national laws that were written in 1777

• Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Ordinance of 1787

• Bill of Rights

The plan for the land north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River. It states that an area became a territory when its population reached 5,000 and it could apply for statehood when its population reached 60,000.

• Ordinance of 1787

• Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Bill of Rights

Farmer attacked courthouses and broke into jails. They were met by a private militia when they were trying to break into the state's arsenal.

• Shays Rebellion

• Bill of Rights

• Ordinance of 1787

• Revolutionary War

A meeting held in Philadelphia in 1787 at which delegates from the states wrote the US Constitution

• Constitutional Convention

• Shays Rebellion

• Ordinance of 1787

• Virginia Plan

James Madison's plan of government in which states got a number of representatives in Congress based on their population. There were two houses. Small states did not like this plan.

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• The Great Compromise

• Constitution

William Paterson's plan of government in which each state would have one vote and there was only one house. Larger states did not like this plan.

• New Jersey Plan

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Virginia Plan

• The Great Compromise

Roger Sherman's plan of government. House of Representatives is based on the state's population and each state gets two senators in the Senate.

• The Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

Every five enslaved people counted as three free people

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• The Great Compromise

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

A set of laws that govern our country to this day.

• Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Ordinance of 1787

• Preamble

Both national and state governments share power. They both make laws and collect taxes.

• Federal System

• Preamble

• Articles

• Federalists