Drafting the Constitution
Plan the framers came up with that called for a New constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation and a new government with 3 branches: Legislative, Executive and Judicial
Virginia Plan
Fear of the US becoming a Monarchy, or Congress becoming too powerful was a fear of this group during the process of Ratifying the Constitution
Anti Federalists
Inability of Congress to tax, regulate trade or to make the states obey were all weakness of which document
Articles of Confederatoin
Plan the framers came up with that retained the unicameral congress of the Confederation, but gave Congress the power to tax
New Jersey Plan
The Weakness of the Articles of Confederation was one of the arguments of this group that supported the Ratification of new Constitution
Federalists
Rebellions such as this one, were results of poor economic conditions resulting from states taxing each other, printing their own money, and farmers losing land
Shays' Rebellion
Compromise that said that enslaved individuals would be counted as Three-fifths a person in the population count for a State
Three-Fifths Compromise
The first State to ratify the Constitution
Delaware
How many of the states were needed to approve a change in the Articles of Confederation
All 13
Compromise that forbade congress from taxing the export of goods from any State, and from acting on the slave trade for a period of 20 years
Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise
The new Congress convened on this date, marking the start of the New U.S. Government
March 4, 1789
Compromise created to ensure the smaller states would be represented the same as the larger states
Connecticut Compromise
Which states vote (being the 11th to ratify) officially ratified the Constitution
New York