Terms
A section of land six miles square
What is a township?
A plan that created on a legislative body for governing the nation
What are the Articles of the Confederation?
The name given to the first paragraph of the Constitution
What is the Preamble?
The experienced treaty maker sent by the Confederation Congress to negotiate with Spain.
Who is John Jay?
The precise term that depicts the type of government created by the Constitution
What is a republic?
A count of the population
What is a census?
Guarantees that were added to the Constitution
What are the Bill of Rights?
The commonly stated function of the judicial branch
What is to interpret the laws?
Out of Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton, he is the only one to attend the Constitutional Convention.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Names given to those who favored and those who opposed the acceptance of the Constitution
Who are Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
A charge on imported goods
What is a tariff?
This organized western land sales
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1785?
The two plans that were merged to form the Great Compromise
What are the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?
The writers of The Federalist Papers
Who are Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison?
System the Constitution devised to elect the President
What is the electoral college?
The giving of formal approval to certain documents
What is ratification?
This contained the means of adding new states to the Union.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
The city and building where the delegates met and devised a Constitution
What are Philadelphia and Independence Hall?
Chosen Chairman of the Constitutional Convention
Who is George Washington?
The most important legislation passed by the Confederation Congress dealt with this
What are the western lands?
The freedom to stockpile goods temporarily at a foreign location
What is right of deposit?
An attempt to persuade the states to ratify the Constiution
What are "The Federalist Papers?"
The name of the compromise that settled the issue of counting slaves for representation and taxation.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
The Father of the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
State that was slow to ratify the AoC
What is Virginia?