Confederation and Constitution Vocabulary (A. Diaz)

first national government of the United States; weak national government

• Articles of the Confederation

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

meeting of delegates from 12 of 13 states to create a new national government (Constitution): held in Philadelphia in 1787

• New Jersey Plan

• Constitutional Convention

• Federal Government

plan in which the number of representatives from each state would vary according to the state's population (proportional representation); favored by large states

• Senate

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

plan in which each state would have equal representation in Congress; favored by small states

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• delegated power

a solution in which each state gives up some of its demands to reach an agreement

• constitution

• compromise

• federalism

compromise between delegates from large and small states; created two houses of Congress- the Senate and House of Representatives

• Checks and Balances

• compromise

• Great Compromise

the basic principles and laws of a nation that determine the powers and duties of the government

• constitution

• judicial branch

• slave trade compromise

part of Congress in which there are two representatives from each state

• federalism

• Senate

• House of Representatives

part of Congress in which the number of representatives from each state vary according to the state's population

• House of Representatives

• Senate

• concurrent power

Constitutional compromise between delegates from northern and southern states saying that three fifths (60%) of slaves would be counted as part of the state's population

• Great Compromise

• Slave Trade Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise