Groups of People
People
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Plans
100
A meeting in May of 1787 in Philadelphia where delegates discussed their goal of forming a stronger government; included delegates who had steered the young nation toward independence.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
100
A representative.
What is a delegate?
100
A law
What is an ordinance?
100
The branch of government that makes and passes laws; the United States Congress
What is the Legislative Branch?
100
The first plan for government of the United States
What is the Articles of Confederation?
200
A group of patriots who pushed for a stronger national government; the members in this group included leaders of the American Revolution such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
Who are the nationalists?
200
A poor farmer who had been a captain during the Revolutionary War. After being sued for not paying his debts, he led a group of other farmers and soldiers in an armed rebellion, seeking to close the courts that sent farmers to prison.
Who is Daniel Shays?
200
A written plan for government that describes the principles and organization of a nation.
What is a constitution?
200
The branch of government that interprets the laws; the United States Supreme Court and other courts
What is the Judicial Branch?
200
A plan for a whole new form of government that called for an executive branch to carry out laws and a judicial branch to decide their meaning; states with larger populations would have more power in the government.
What is the Virginia Plan?
300
A group of representatives from all colonies, except Georgia, who met to make important decisions such as stopping all trade with Britain until the Intolerable Acts were repealed, asking the king to help solve the problem of taxes, creating a militia and the Continental Army, and writing the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Continental Congress?
300
Elected as president of the Constitutional Convention; supported a stronger national government
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
A situation when groups on each side of an issue each give in a little to reach an agreement.
What is a compromise?
300
The branch of government that carries out the laws; the United States President and his or her administration
What is the Executive Branch?
300
A plan for a whole new form of government that called for each state to have the same number of representatives which would give all states equal power, no matter their size. Smaller states favored this plan.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
One of two houses in Congress where the number of representatives for each state is based on their population.
What is the House of Representatives?
400
Argued fiercely for independence; refused to attend the Constitutional Convention; defended the Articles of Confederation; Opposed taking power from the states.
Who is Patrick Henry?
400
The separation of powers in a democracy that gives each branch of government some form of authority over the others.
What is checks and balances?
400
To approve.
What is ratify?
400
A new plan for government that called proposed Congress be made up of two parts, or houses- the Senate and the House of Representatives; each state would have equal power in the Senate, however, larger states would have more power in the House of Representatives
What is The Great Compromise?
500
One of the two houses in Congress where each state has equal power, regardless of the states population.
What is the Senate?
500
The president of the Second Continental Congress; helped write the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
500
The introduction to the Constitution of the United States of America
What is the Preamble?
500
A steady rise in prices that occurs as money loses value and things cost more.
What is inflation?
500
A compromise between the Northern and Southern states of how to count slaves in their population; states would count only 3 out of every 5 of their enslaved people both for representation and for taxes.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
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