Lesson 10 Creating The Constitution Vocabulary

The first written plan of government for the United States; 1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade)

• Constitution of 1787
• Bill of Rights
• Articles of Confederation
• Federalist Papers

a written plan that provides the basic framework of a government

• constitution
• government policy
• declaration of independence
• bill of rights

a meeting held in Philadelphia in 1787 at which delegates from the states wrote the U.S. Constitution

• Federalist Convention
• Constitutional Convention
• Continental Congress
• Philadelphia Assembly

the group established by the Constitution to elect the president and vice president. Voters in each state choose their electors.

• Electoral Board
• Presidential Council
• Voting Assembly
• Electoral College

the plan of government adopted at the Constitutional Convention that established a two-house Congress. In the House of Representatives, representation from each state is based on state population. In the Senate, each state is represented by two senators.

• The Virginia Plan
• The Great Compromise
• The New Jersey Plan
• The Articles of Confederation

"Father of the Constitution," Federalist leader, and fourth President of the United States.

• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washington
• Alexander Hamilton
• James Madison

a law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed

• Northwest Ordinance
• Morrill Act
• Land Ordinance of 1785
• Homestead Act

a region of the United States bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Great Lakes. The region was given to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

• Southwest Territory
• Southeast Territory
• Northwest Territory
• Northeast Territory

to formally approve a plan or an agreement. To officially make legal.

• endorsement
• validation
• ratify

• confirmation

a country governed by elected representatives

• Republic

• Monarchy
• Dictatorship
• Oligarchy