Constitutional Convention Vocabulary

1. the first plan of government for the United States. (1781-1789) It gave more power to the states than the central government. 

• Declaration of Independence

• The Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• The Great Cpmpromise

A plan proposed at the Constitutional Convention. It called for a bicameral legislature with representation based on a state’s population.

• The Great Compromise

• Magna Carta

• New Jersey Plan

• The Virginia Plan

1. A revolt of Massachusetts farmers against high state taxes on land. 

• Philadelphia Mutiny

• Shays' Rebellion

• King Philip's War

• Boston Tea Party

1. This divided the Northwest territory into smaller territories and created a plan for how territories could become states. 

• The Northwest Territory

• The Proclamation of 1763

• The Abolition Movement

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787-

1. former Revolutionary soldiers, carrying muskets, marched on the Philadelphia statehouse where Congress was meeting and demanded payment for their service. The state of Pennsylvania refused to send militia to protect the delegates and Congress was forced to relocate.

• The Philadelphia Mutiny

• Shays' Rebellion

• Bacon's Rebellion

• The Boston Massacre

a meeting of delegates who met in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation but instead replaced it with the Constitution.

• Second Continental Congress

• First Continental Congress

• The Great Compromise

• Constitutional Convention

1. a government in which citizens are represented by elected officials and individual rights are protected by the Constitution.

• Republic

• Connotational Monarchy

• Direct Democracy

• Civil Union

1. a person appointed to represent others at a convention or meeting.

• colonists

• delegate

• chairmen

• dictator

 a two house legislature

• bicameral

• unicameral

• New Jersey Plan

• compromise

plan favored by small states. It called for equal representation in a 

                   Unicameral legislature.

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Articles of Confederation

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan