The Beginnings of American Government

A group of colonial men, dressed as native americans, dumped 340 chests of tea into the ocean.

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Constitutional Convention

• Continental Congress

Bicameral Plan: Representation based on population: LARGE states favor this

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Ratify

• 13th Amendment

Unicameral Plan: EQUAL representation in every state, SMALL states favor this

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Ratify

• 13th Amendment

To approve

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Ratify

• 13th Amendment

Forbids chattel slavery across the United States and in every territory under its control, except as a criminal punishment

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Ratify

• 13th Amendment

Having two branches or chambers

• Bicameral

• Popular Sovereignty

• Unanimous

• Charter

Government based on consent of the people

• Bicamera

• Popular Sovereignty

• Unanimous

• Charter

(of two or more people) fully in agreement

• Bicameral

• Popular Sovereignty

• Unanimous

• Charter

a written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power, by which a body such as a company, college, or city is founded and its rights and privileges defined.

• Bicameral

• Popular Sovereignty

• Unanimous

• Charter

People that supported the constitution

• Federalist

• Anti-Federalist

• Royal Colony

• Proprietary Colony