Creating the Constitution Vocabulary

the document that created the first central government for the United States

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

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

• Whiskey Rebellion

• Shay's Rebellion

• Farmer's Rebellion

a meeting held in Philadelphia at which delegates from the states wrote the Constitution

• Articles of Convention

• Constitutional Attending

• Constitutional Convention

proposal to create a unicameral legislature with equal representation of states rather than representation by population; rejected at the Constitutional Convention

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Great Compromise

• Unicameral pLan

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

• New Jersey Plan

• Viriginia Plan

• Great Compromise

• Bicameral Plan

1.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 of the legislature

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Great Compromise

• Legislature Compromise

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

• New Jersey Plan

• Great Compromise

• 3/5 Compromise

• Enslaved Compromise

1.people who supported ratification of the Constitution

• Federalist

• Anti-Federalist

• Federalist Papers

people who did NOT support ratification of the Constitution

• Federalist

• Anti-Federalist

• Federalist Papers

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

• Federalists

• Anti-Federalists

• Federalist Papers