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Rights and the Article of Confederation
Settling the Land and Problems with the Articles
The Plans
Slavery and the Constitution
Famous People and their accomplishments
100
States wrote these to make rules for governing
What are constitutions?
100
Mississippi River
What is the new border of the western part of America?
100
Representation by population
What is the Virginia Plan?
100
three-fifths a person
What was the value of slaves in voting?
100
Common Sense
Who is Thomas Paine
200
The branch of government given most of the power under the Articles
What is the legislature?
200
At least $1 an acre
What is how much land in the new territory could be sold for?
200
Two houses of Congress
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
More voting power
What the South wanted by counting slaves in determining representatives?
200
Horatio Gates
Who was the American general who won at Saratoga?
300
Most states used these documents to base their own Bill of rights on
What are the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights?
300
Each township must include one within their borders
What is a school?
300
Each state had the same number of votes
What is the New Jersey Plan?
300
The branch of the legislature that the South gained more representatives in
What is the House of Representatives?
300
The Great Compromise
Who is Roger Sherman?
400
The amount of states that must agree on any important matter before it can be enacted
What is 9?
400
Where goods must be shipped from in the western territories
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
400
Expanded Powers of Congress to regulate commerce and raise money
What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
20 years
What is the amount of time slaves can be shipped to America before it could be banned?
400
I surrendered at Yorktown
Who is General Cornwallis?
500
Declare war and borrow money
What are two powers Congress had under the Articles?
500
The response was to send a delegation to Philadelphia in 1987.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
500
He said electing the legislature by the people was "not only the cornerstone, but the foundation of the fabric."
Who is James Wilson?
500
Gueverneur Morris
Who wrote the preamble to the Constitution?
500
George Rogers Clark
Who is the American who captured two outposts on the Mississippi?