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American statesman and Founding Father as well as 4th president of the US. "Father of the Constitution" promoted Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Who is James Madison?
Proposal for a bicameral legislative branch by Virginia delegates.
What is the Virginia Plan?
Meeting in Philadelphia, designed a government with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is the Philadelphia Convention (1787)?
This man influenced the ratification of the Constitution. Wrote 51 of the 85 essays in the Federalist Papers. Statesman.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Plan for each state to have one vote in Congress instead of multiple votes that are based on population.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
Allowing that three-fifths of all other persons (i.e. slaves) were to be taken into account when determining congressional representation for each state in the new legislature.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
Name some Federalists.
Who are John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton?
Plan proposed that Connecticut's delegates to the Constitutional Convention and established a two-house legislature.
What is the Connecticut Plan?
Sought to settle the issues between the two countries that had been left unresolved since American independence.
What is the Jay Treaty(1794)?
Name some Anti- Federalists.
Who are Patrick Henry, Sam Adams, George Mason, and Richard Henry Lee?
Four bills passed by the Federalist-dominated 5th United States Congress and signed into law by John Adams in 1798. These laws made it harder for immigrants to vote and deported them.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts(1798)?
A confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War.
What is the XYZ Affair?
An American Founding Father. Author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
One of the first acts of the new Congress was to establish a federal court system.
What is the Judiciary Act?