A New Nation

1st Government of the U.S. after the Revolutionary War, that had a weak national or federal government, and states had more or stronger power

• Delegate

• Articles of Confederation

• The Constitution

• The Virginia Plan

A person appointed or elected to represent others

• The New Jersey Plan

• Bill of Rights

• The Constitution

• Delegate

A written plan of government. The government that was created to replace the Articles of Confederation, which had a stronger national government and individual rights and liberties

• The New Jersey Plan

• President

• The Constitution

• Delegate

The meeting of state delegates in 1787 in Philadelphia called to revise the Articles of Confederation. It instead designed a new plan of government, the US Constitution.

• The Constitutional Convention

• The Virginia Plan

• Federalists

• Anti-Federalists

two or more sides presenting different opinions about a topic

• Delegate

• The Virginia Plan

• Debate

• Founding Fathers

Virginia delegate James Madison's plan of government, in which states got a number of representatives in Congress based on their population

• Delegate

• The Virginia Plan

• Debate

• Articles of Confederation

The proposal at the Constitutional Convention that called for equal representation of each state in Congress regardless of the state's population.

• Founding Fathers

• The Virginia Plan

• The New Jersey Plan

• The Constitution

supporters of the Constitution during the ratification process, favored a strong central government

• Federalists

• The Virginia Plan

• Bill of Rights

• Anti-Federalists

supporters who wanted a "bill of rights" to be included in the constitution to protect individual rights during ratification

• Federalists

• The Virginia Plan

• Bill of Rights

• Anti-Federalists

First 10 amendments to the Constitution that guaranteed personal rights and liberties

• Federalists

• Articles of Confederation

• Bill of Rights

• Delegate