Vocab.
This term refers to a person chosen to act for or represent others.
What are DELEGATES?
This was the name of the farmer and former Captain that fought in the American Revolution who led a rebellion against the Massachusetts government.
Who is DANIEL SHAYS?
The Articles of Confederation served as the first of these for the United States of America.
What is the first CONSTITUTION?
The Constitutional Convention was held in this city.
Where is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
This proposed plan for a national government called for a unicameral legislature in which each state gets one vote in Congress.
This term refers to the Delegates to the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. They are the group of men who composed the United States Constitution.
What are FRAMERS?
This man was clearly the most prepared delegate to attend the Constitutional Convention. He would become known as the "Father of the Constitution."
Who is James Madison?
This man was the primary author of the first draft of the Articles of Confederation.
Who is John Dickinson?
This was the year the Constitutional Convention first met.
This proposed plan for a national government called for a bicameral legislature in which both sections number of representatives would be determined by state population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This term refers to the idea that each state should have the same number of representatives in Congress.
What is EQUAL REPRESENTATION?
This man presented the "New Jersey Plan" at the Constitutional Convention.
Who is William Paterson?
This is the year the Articles of Confederation went into effect.
This is number of delegates that attended the Constitutional Convention.
What is 55?
This compromise settled the debate between Northern (Free States) and Southern (Slave States) by counting a portion of states' slave population toward congressional representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This term refers to the system in which the number of representatives for a state is based on the number of people who live in that state. This concept is used to determine the number of each state’s representatives serving in the House of Representatives.
What is PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION?
This man crafted the Virginia Plan that presented at the Constitutional Convention.
Who is James Madison?
This event pointed out the weakness of the national government under the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This is the initial reason given for the meeting that became known as the Constitutional Convention.
What is in order to revise, or change, the Articles of Confederation?
The Great Compromise settled the dispute over congressional representation by creating a bicameral legislature with these two sections and means of determining how many representatives each state would get.
What is....
The Senate: each state gets two senators
and
The House of Representatives: number of representatives for each state would be based on that state's population?
What is BICAMERAL?
This man proposed the "Great Compromise" that was eventually accepted to settle the debate over representation.
Who is Roger Sherman?
The Articles of Confederation were first drafted at this meeting in 1777.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
What is Rhode Island?
The Electoral College created a system for electing the president in which the number of electoral votes was based on this.
What is each state's Congressional Representation?