Unit 3 part 1

1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade)

• Articles of Confederation

• Ordinance

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

established a procedure for the admission of new states to the Union; 60,000 free settlers and a written constitution

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

system for surveying and dividing western lands

• Articles of Confederation

• Proclamation of 1763

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Land Ordinance of 1785

A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitution

• Constitutional Convention

• Articles of Confederation

• Executive Branch

• Great Awakening

Big state plan (based on population not land mass);

wanted representation to be based on population

• Anaconda Plan

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Constitution Plan

Small state plan; wanted each state to be equal

• Anaconda Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Constitution Plan

Created the Senate from the ____ ____; each state would have equal representation with 2 Senators (idea came from New Jersey Plan / Small state plan)

• Great Compromise

• 3/5ths Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

Created the House of Representatives from the ____ ____; representation would be based on ____ (idea came from Virginia Plan / Big state plan)

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• Great Compromise

• 3/5ths Compromise

• Land

• Missouri Compromise

• Population

During the Constitutional Convention, the delegates were arguing over ​ (a)   for each state which would lead to political ​ (b)   .

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• representation
• power
• equal
• population
• compromise

an agreement between two sides of an argument or debate; each side givers something and each side gives something

• fight

• disagreement

• compromise

• complaint