American Republic - Chapter 7 Test

attempted to persuade people to support the ratification of the Constitution

• Anti-Federalists

• Democratic-Republicans

• Whigs

• Federalists

outlined the first form of government for the United States

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

outlined the steps for a territory to become a state

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Bill of Rights

• Constituion

• Land Act

provided for the division and sale of the Northwest Territory

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Northwest Ordinance

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

guaranteed the rights of citizens in the first ten amendments to the Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• Constitutional Amendments

• Civil Rights Act

• Declaration of Independence

replaced the Articles of Confederation as the new form of government for the United States

• Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Federalist Papers

• Constitution

war veteran who led a rebellion in Massachusetts

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Daniel Shays

delegate from Connecticut who proposed the Great Compromise

• William Samuel Johnson

• Oliver Ellsworth

• Jonathan Trumbull

• Roger Sherman

delegate from Virginia who kept a detailed journal of the Constitutional Convention

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Patrick Henry

• James Madison

oldest member of the Constitutional Convention at age 82

• George Washington

• James Madison

• Alexander Hamilton

• Benjamin Franklin