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1. A plan for the government that would satisfy the needs of all 13 states.2. Congress had the authority to conduct foreign affairs, maintain armed forces, borrow money, and issue currency.3.Congress, however did not have the power to regulate trade, force citizens to join the army, or impose taxes.4. The confederation government carried on much of its business, such as selling western lands, through congressional committees.5. You needed consent from the states to change the AOC.6. Any attempt to change the AOC required the consent of all 13 states. |
Articles of Confederation |
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1) He is a british commander2) he believed his size of his army would make them give up. |
General William Howe |
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1. The US was going through a depression because a period when economic activity slows and unemployment rate increases. Trade also decreased when the British closed the profitable West Indies market to American merchants. |
Depression: Definition |
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1. Daniel Shays led Shays rebellion.2. Farmers were the group of people that were apart of the rebellion.3. They were rebelling because state officials seized farmers lands to pay their debts and threw many farmers in jail.4. Farmers viewed the new government as just another tyranny.5. They forced courts in western Massachusetts to close so judges could not take away farmers' lands.6. The state militia fired at the farmers and killed four of them, Shays and his followers scattered.7. They worried that the government could not control unrest prevent violence. |
Shays's Rebellion |
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1. Edmund Randolph was the man who proposed the Virginia Plan, which was largely the work of James Madison.2. The plan called for a two house legislature, chief executive chosen by the legislature, and a court system.3. In both houses the number of representatives would be proportional to the population of each state. This would give Virginia many more delegates than Delaware, the state with the |
Virginia Plan |
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1. William Patterson wrote the New Jersey Plan.2. Patterson's New Jersey Plan kept the Confederation's one-house legislature, one vote for each state, congress could set taxes, regulate trade, and weak executive branch. |
New Jersey Plan
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1. The convention was called together because the people of the US demanded a reform of the Articles of Confederation. "The Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union."2. At first GW was not enthusiastic about the movement to revise the AOC. When Washington heard about Shays's rebellion however he changed his mind.3. The 55 delegates included planters, merchants, lawyers, physicians, generals, governors, and a college president.4. All 13 states had to agree on something to change the AOC.5. No meetings could be held unless delegates from at least 7 of 13 states were present. |
Constitutional Convention |
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1. Amend means to improve, make a change to improve the situation.2. We need to amend the document today. |
Amend |
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1. It was about slavery and if they counted towards a states population.2. The compromise was created to figure out the problem about if slaves should count towards a states population in the South or not.3. Southern states wanted to include enslaved people in their population counts to gain delegates in the House of Representatives.4. Northern states objected because enslaved people were legally considered property. Some Northern delegates argued that enslaved people, as property, should be counted for the purpose of taxation but not representation. |
Three-Fifths Compromise |
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1. Bicameral legislature, number of representation in upper house will have 2 members, number of representation in lower house will be based on population.2. I think this compromise was fair because the lower house voted for upper house representatives and each state had individual representatives |
Great Compromise |
