Unit 3 Vocabulary Pre-Quiz

The first written plan of government for the United States. Ratified in 1781

• Bill of Rights
• Constitution
• Articles of Confederation
• Federalist Papers

A meeting held in Philadelphia in 1787 at which delegates from the states wrote the U.S. Constitution

• Constitutional Convention
• Federalist Convention
• Continental Congress
• Philadelphia Assembly

A written plan that provides the basic framework of a government

• Constitution
• Legislation
• Amendment
• Bill of Rights

roup established by the Constitution to elect the president and vice president. Voters in each state choose electors

(a)  

• Voting Committee
• Electoral Assembly
• Presidential Council
• Electoral College

Adopted at the Constitutional Convention. Established a 2 house congress: House of Representatives (based on population) and Senate (2 per state)

• Virginia Plan
• New Jersey Plan
• Three-Fifths Compromise
• Great Compromise

A formal listing of the basic rights of people in the United States. First 10 amendments of the Constitution.

(a)  

• Federalist Papers
• Declaration of Independence
• Constitutional Amendments
• Bill of Rights

A region of the United States bordered by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Great Lakes. The region was given to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

• Southwest Territory
• Northwest Territory
• Northeast Territory
• Southeast Territory

a law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed

• Northwest Ordinance
• Morrill Act
• Land Ordinance of 1785
• Homestead Act

To formally approve a plan or an agreement.

(a)  

• endorse
• validate
• ratify
• approve

A series of essays written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay in support of the US Constitution

(a)  

• The Constitution itself
• Federalist Papers
• Anti-Federalist Papers
• The Bill of Rights