Our Very First Government
What was the name of the very first government (constitution) created after the colonies won their independence from Great Britain?
The Articles of Confederation
The event that made all 13 states realize they needed to create a new government to replace the first one?
Shays' Rebellion
In what month and year was the Constitutional Convention held?
What is May-Sep 1787?
The branches of government the Virginia Plan called for.
Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branch
The number of votes required to change any of the Articles of Confederation.
The reason farmers in Massachusetts Revolted.
What is the State government foreclosing on their farms for nonpayment of taxes?
This group supported ratification of the Constitution.
Who were the Federalist?
The two houses proposed by Virginia Plan’s legislature.
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
The number of houses proposed by the New Jersey Plan’s legislature.
What is one-house national legislature?
A strength that the national government had under the Articles of Confederation.
What is the power to establish a military by asking states, in order win the war against the British?
Allowed new states to enter the Union once they reached a population of 60,000.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
He became known as the Father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
According to the Virginia Plan, this method determined how many seats a state got in Congress?
What is proportional (population) representation?
According to the New Jersey Plan, this method determined how many seats a state got to send to Congress.
What is equal representation?
The Articles of Confederation prohibited the National Government from these powers.
What is the power to carry out laws, power to tax, power to regulate trade or prevent tariffs?
This delegate acted as the chairman of the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
Who is George Washington?
The size/type of states that supported the Virginia Plan.
What are States with large populations?
The types/size of states that supported the New Jersey Plan.
What are states with small populations?
The number of votes needed to pass a law in the Articles of Confederation.
What are nine of the thirteen states?
This group of men opposed ratifying the Constitution as they feared the people would not be able to control the government.
Who are Anti-Federalist?
Two important people were unable to attend the Convention of 1787, name at least one of them.
Who is Thomas Jefferson or John Adams?
South Carolina delegate who argued that enslaved peoples be counted toward population.