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Making the Constitution

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  • What are shared powers?
    Powers shared by both the federal government and state governments
  • Who wanted representation by population?
    Big States
  • How did a territory become a state?
    5,000 to choose their governor, 60,000 to make a Constitution
  • What are delegated/enumerated powers?
    Powers given to the national government by the Constitution
  • Who were the colonists loyal to?
    Their states
  • What did the New Jersey Plan say?
    one house legislature, equal representation
  • What are the three branches of governement?
    Legislative, Executive, Judicial
  • What was the significance of Shays' Rebellion?
    Proved that the Articles of Confederation didn't work
  • Who wanted equal representation?
    Small states
  • What was the Great Compromise?
    two-house congress, lower house representation by population, upper house representation equal
  • What are reserved powers?
    Powers given to the states
  • What was the three-fifths compromise?
    Said that 3/5 of a state's slaves counted toward the population
  • What were the Articles of Confederatoin?
    The first government in the United States
  • Who had power under the Articles of Confederation?
    The states
  • What did the Virginia Plan say?
    two-house legislature, representation by population,
  • What happened at the Constitutional Convention
    Decided to make the Constitution
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