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The delegates decided to ban(stop) this in the United States starting in 1808.
What is the slave trade?
The number of branches the government had under the Articles of Confederation.
What is one?
An agreement
What is compromise?
The name of the revolt when MA farmers forced the closure of courthouses.
What is Shays's Rebellion?
He was the creator of the Virginia Plan and took the notes at the Constitutional Convention.
What is James Madison?
The Constitutional Convention was originally called to revise the _____________.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The branch of government in charge of making laws.
What is the legislative branch (Congress)?
A meeting or large gathering
What is a convention?
The ratification of the Constitution happened in the individual _____.
What is states?
This group was unhappy with the Constitution.
What is the Antifederalists?
This document eventually replaced the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitution?
He was elected to be the leader of the Constitutional Convention
What is George Washington?
Another word for a representative.
What is a delegate?
The proposal at the Constitutional Convention that stated that the number of representatives sent to Congress would be based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
He was the oldest delegate at the Constitutional Convention.
What is Benjamin Franklin?
The idea that each state should send an equal number of representatives to the Congress was called the _____________.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
States with larger populations send more delegates to the ______________ then states with smaller populations.
What is House of Representatives?
The name of the first plan of government in the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Identify 2 of the 3 Federalists who supported the Constitution by writing essays.
What is Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and and James Madison?
William Paterson contributed this idea to the Constitutional Convention.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
During the Constitutional Convention, delegates agreed to count slaves into the population a specific way. Name the Compromise.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
Today the ______________ recieves the same amount of representatives from each state.
What is Senate?
To approve.
What is ratify?
The first ten amendments added to the Constitution was called the ____________.
What is Bill of Rights?