Drafting the Constitution
Ratification
Weaknesses
100

Plan the framers came up with that called for a New constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation and a new government with 3 branches: Legislative, Executive and Judicial

Virginia Plan

100

Fear of the US becoming a Monarchy, or Congress becoming too powerful was a fear of this group during the process of Ratifying the Constitution

Anti Federalists

100

Inability of Congress to tax, regulate trade or to make the states obey were all weakness of which document

Articles of Confederatoin

200

Plan the framers came up with that retained the unicameral congress of the Confederation, but gave Congress the power to tax

New Jersey Plan

200

The Weakness of the Articles of Confederation was one of the arguments of this group that supported the Ratification of new Constitution

Federalists

200

Rebellions such as this one, were results of poor economic conditions resulting from states taxing each other, printing their own money, and farmers losing land

Shays' Rebellion

300

Compromise that said that enslaved individuals would be counted as Three-fifths a person in the population count for a State

Three-Fifths Compromise

300

The first State to ratify the Constitution

Delaware

300

How many of the states were needed to approve a change in the Articles of Confederation

All 13

400

Compromise that forbade congress from taxing the export of goods from any State, and from acting on the slave trade for a period of 20 years

Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise

400

The new Congress convened on this date, marking the start of the New U.S. Government

March 4, 1789

500

Compromise created to ensure the smaller states would be represented the same as the larger states

Connecticut Compromise

500

Which states vote (being the 11th to ratify) officially ratified the Constitution

New York