Creating the Constitution Unit Test Review

dividing power between national and state governments

• Federalism

• Land Ordinance

• Antifederalists

• Revise Articles of Confederation

procedures for territories to become states

• Effect of Shays' Rebellion

• Land Ordinance

• Northwest Ordinance

• Northwest Territory

Sign Treaties

• Replaced the Articles of Confederation

• Power of government under Articles of Confederation

• Weakness of government under Articles of Confederation

• Reason to create a weak government

Representation equal for each state - satisfied small states

• Federalists

• House of Representatives

• Republic

• Senate

3 branches, 1-house legislature, equal representation

• New Jersey Plan

• Why the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution

• Virginia Plan

• Federalists

Strong might become a tyranny

Showed how weak Articles of Confederation were

• Northwest Ordinance

• Reason to create a weak government

• Revise Articles of Confederation

• Effect of Shays' Rebellion

protect people's rights

• Federalists

• Virginia Plan

• Why the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution

• New Jersey Plan

the original purpose of the Constitutional Convention

• Revise Articles of Confederation

• Reason to create a weak government

• Effect of Shays' Rebellion

• Replaced the Articles of Confederation

Land between Ohio R., Mississippi R., and Great Lakes

• Northwest Ordinance

• Effect of Shays' Rebellion

• Revise Articles of Confederation

• Northwest Territory