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Key Terms
100
A two house Legislature
What is Bicameral?
100
Created a system for admitting new states to the Union
What is Northwest Ordinance?
100
enjoyed independence from Britain
What is Charter Colony ?
100
This compromise suggested that legislature have two parts a House of Representatives & a Senate
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
100
First ten amendments to the Constitution
What is Bill of rights?
200
Colonies that were directly controlled by the King
What is Royal Colonies?
200
Settled the disagreement on slavery
What is The Three-Fifths Compromise?
200
set of limits on the monarch passed by parliament in the Glorious Revolution
What is English Bill of Rights?
200
the one state who refused to send a delegate to the Constitutional Convention
What is Rhode Island?
200
our nations first constitution
What is Articles of Confederation ?
300
One of the earliest English efforts toward limited government
What is Magna Carta?
300
The plan favored by the larger states
What is the Virginia Plan?
300
The first Tax passed on the colonies by Britain
What is Stamp act?
300
unanimously voted as head chair of the Constitutional Convention
What is George Washington?
300
group who opposed the new constitution
What is Antifederalists?
400
When a document is formally approved
What is ratification?
400
Combined ideas from the Virginia Plan & New Jersey Plan
What is The Great Compromise?
400
document written declaring separation from British rule
What is Declaration of independence?
400
The rebellion that resulted in revising the articles of confederation
What is Shay's Rebellion?
400
Pen name used by the authors of the federalist papers
What is Publius?
500
A powerful alliance of six Native American nations
What is Iroquois Confederation?
500
A unicameral legislature with one vote for each state
What is the New Jersey Plan?
500
British Parliaments reasons for taxing the colonies
What is French and Indian War?
500
essays written in favor of the new constitution
What is Federalist Papers ?
500
Where and when was the constitutional convention held
What is Philadelphia, May 25, 1787