Unit 4 vocab words

A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 where delegates from the states wrote the US Constitution.

• Constitutional Convention

• Great Compromise

• electoral college

• ratify

The FIRST written plan of government for the United States.

• constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Great Compromise

• three-fifths compromise

the plan of government adopted at the Constitutional Convention that established a two-house Congress; the House of Representatives & Senate

• Constitutional Convention

• republic

• Articles of Confederation

• Great Compromise

opponents of ratifying the US Constitution favoring the Loose association of states established under the AOC (Articles of Confederation)

• three-fifths compromise

• electoral college

• Anti Federalists

• Federalists

The "Age of Reason" in the 17th & 18th century Europe that spread to the colonies. It emphasized reason and the scientific method based on laws of nature such as rights to liberty & equality.

• Great Compromise

• Constitutional Convention

• enlightenment

• popular sovereignty

A written set of rules that guides how a country, state, or other political organization works

• republic

• Bill of Rights

• Northwest Territory

• constitution

an agreement made at the Constitutional Convention stating that enslaved persons would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining a state's population for representation in the House of Representatives

• Great Compromise

• Articles of Confederation

• four-fifths

  compromise

• three-fifths compromise

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

• Federalists

• electoral college

• republic

• popular sovereignty

Supporters of ratifying the U.S. Constitution favoring a strong federal government that shared power with the states

• Federalists

• Anti Federalists

• republic

• electoral college

a region in the US bounded by Ohio & Mississippi Rivers & great Lakes. The region was given to the US by Treaty of Paris in 1783

• electoral college

• Northwest Territory

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Anti Federalists