Articles of Confederation
States have more power than the federal government on purpose
What is States' Rights?
A pre-convention after Shay's Rebellion to discuss trade and navigation problems
What is the Annapolis Convention?
Suggested a unicameral Legislative Branch, multiple presidents in the Executive Branch, and was heavily favored by small states
What is the New Jersey Plan?
The ranking of power/authority
What is Supremacy Clause?
To approve or pass
What is ratification?
Declare war, make peace, sign treaties, borrow money, makes treaties with Native Americans
What is the governments powers?
Daniel Shay led a rebellion of in-debt farmers in Massachusetts
What is Shay's Rebellion?
An event that occurred after the Annapolis Convention which finalized the foundation of the country
What is the Constitutional Convention?
When power is spread out
What is decentralized power?
Dealt with the separation of powers and checks and balances, and explains how these help secure peoples' liberties
What is Federalist 51?
Collect taxes, control foreign and domestic trade, amend/change Articles of Confederation, and force states to do anything
What is out of the governments powers?
Five states ratified the Constitution on this day
When is December 1787?
Solved how slaves would be counted towards state population
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
The group who opposed ratification
What is the anti-federalists?
Dealt with the problem of factions/political parties
What is Federalist 10?
A loose organization of states that came together for defense
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The 10 Amendment Bill of Rights was ratified in what year
What is 1791?
Solved how states are represented in the Legislative Branch
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
Two sections, two Houses
What is bicameral?
The group who fought to ratify the Constitution
What is the federalists?
Kept power closer to the people with the states, held 13 colonies together during the Revolutionary War, created rules for statehood, and halted spread of slavery in the Northwest Territory
What is the positives of the Articles of Confederation?
A law passed by Congress to deal with western lands and outlawed slavery
What is Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
Suggested a bicameral Legislative Branch, Executive Branch members to be elected by House of Representatives, and was heavily favored by big states
What is the Virginia Plan?
When power is in one place or with one person
What is centralized power?
A federalist who created Federalists 10 and 51
What is James Madison?