Unit 5: Constitution Vocabulary Quiz Review

Document stating the rules under which government will operate

• constitution

• judicial branch

• compromise

• ratify

to approve

• constitution

• judicial branch

• compromise

• ratify

agreement in which each side gives up part of what it wants to end a disagreement

• constitution

• judicial branch

• compromise

• ratify

system of courts to settle disputes involving national issues

• constitution

• judicial branch

• compromise

• ratify

Worked with Madison and Hamilton to publish the Federalist Papers (wanted the Constitution)

• John Jay

• Daniel Shays

• George Mason

• Gouverneur Morris

a gifted writer; largely responsible for writing the Preamble of the Constitution

• John Jay

• Daniel Shays

• George Mason

• Gouverneur Morris

a leading Anti-Federalist; felt the Constitution had gone too far

• John Jay

• Daniel Shays

• George Mason

• Gouverneur Morris

led an uprising of about 1,000 Massachusetts farmers

• John Jay

• Daniel Shays

• George Mason

• Gouverneur Morris

Wrote the Virginia Plan; took careful notes; journals published after his death; known as the “Father of the Constitution”

• Alexander Hamilton

• James Madison

• George Mason

• Gouverneur Morris