Founding Failures
This document created a "firm league of friendship" where states were guaranteed freedom and independence, but it lacked a strong central authority
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This plan appealed to large states because it proposed that representation in the legislature be based on a state's population
What is the Virginia Plan?
This agreement combined features from the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan to satisfy both large and small states
What is the Great Compromise?
This group supported the Constitution and believed it would unify the states
Who are the Federalists?
This term means to officially approve a document like the Constitution
What is ratify?
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government was unable to pay Revolutionary War debts because it lacked this specific power
What is the power to tax?
This plan appealed to smaller states because it proposed a one-part legislature where every state had exactly one representative
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This compromise decided how enslaved people would be counted when determining a state's population for representation
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This group preferred the Articles of Confederation because they wanted the states to have more power
Who are the Antifederalists?
This is a person who represents other people at a meeting like the Constitutional Convention
What is a delegate?
One major goal of the writers of the Articles of Confederation was to avoid a national government that was too much like this powerful British body
What is the British Parliament?
The Virginia Plan suggested that the national legislature should have this many parts
What is two?
Southern states feared that without the extra votes provided by the Three-Fifths Compromise, Congress would take this action
What is outlaw slavery?
This person, along with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, was a leader of the Federalists
Who is George Washington?
This is an addition or change to the Constitution
What is an amendment?
By 1786, the Articles were failing because many of the thirteen states had written these, which challenged national authority
What are their own constitutions?
Large states argued that if a nation's government was not controlled by this group, it could not be considered a democracy
What is the majority?
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Samuel Adams and George Mason were members of this group that opposed the new Constitution
Who are the Antifederalists?
This refers to the type of money used in a particular place, which each state maintained separately under the Article
What is currency?
What event caused the founding fathers to rethink the Articles of Confederation
What is Shay's Rebellion?
In the Virginia Plan, the national government would have had the power to do this to state laws they disagreed with
What is veto?
The Great Compromise was designed to meet the states' demands for both majority rule and this
What is equality?
Antifederalists would not agree to the new constintution unless this was written
What is the Bill of Rights
This refers to the period of time an elected official stays in office
What is a term?