Article of Confederation
The 1780's
Philadelphia Convention
Conflicts between large and small states
The Question of Slavery
100
After the Declaration of Independence was signed, it sent the plan to the states to set up a national government.
What was the Second Continental Congress?
100
an order or law made by a government
What is an ordinance?
100
those who organized and wrote the US Constitution
Who were Framers of the US Constitution?
100
one of the hardest questions the Framers had to answer
What was how many representatives should each state be able to send to Congress?
100
way some Northerners made their living even though most Northerners did not own slaves
What was the slave trade?
200
a loose union of states with equal powers
What is a confederation?
200
a plan for adding new states in the land between the Mississippi River, the Great Lakes, and the Ohio River
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
200
refused to send any delegates to the Philadelphia Convention
What was Rhode Island?
200
the fear that the states with small populations had about Congress
What was that the larger states would have more votes in Congress?
200
main reason the Framers agreed on several compromises
What was to get the Southern states to agree to be a part of the new government?
300
the main fear the Founders had when writing the Articles of Confederation
What was a strong national government?
300
the main problem with the national government under the Articles of Confederation
What was that it was weak?
300
Father of the Constitution
Who was James Madison?
300
plan that the delegates accepted for representation in Congress
What was the Great Compromise?
300
because of this agreement, the Southern states agreed to support the Constitution
What was the three-fifths compromise?
400
The number of votes each state had in Congress
What was one?
400
when more than 1000 angry farmers gathered to fight the Massachusetts government
What was Shays' Rebellion?
400
the number of votes each state wold have at the convention
What was one?
400
how large and small states could check each other's powers
What was that a law could not be passed unless a majority in both houses voted for it?
400
possibly why the word slave is not found anywhere in the Constitution
What was because the framers were ashamed of slavery?
500
where the power of the government was
What was the Congress?
500
meeting called by Congress to make improvement to the Articles of Confederation
What was the Philadelphia Convention?
500
their final actions were the writing of the US Constitution and the throwing out of the Articles of Confederation
What was the Philadelphia Convention?
500
had the number of representatives based on population
What was the House of Representatives?
500
freed people from slavery
What was the Thirteenth Amendment?
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