7th grade history chapter 7 section 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Articles of Confederation | The government under the _____________ faced many problems. |
| depression | After the Revolutionary War, the United states experienced a ___________. |
| Shay's | Suffering American farmer'srevolted aginst government treatment they felt was unfair in _______ Rebellion. |
| slavery | The Revolutionary War brought ________ to the contradiction between the American battle for liberty and the practice of _____. |
| Rhode Island and New Jersey | Between 1783 and 1804, Connecticut, _______ New York, and ________ passed laws that gradually ended slavery. |
| Virginia | ________ passed a law that encouraged manumission, the freeing of individual enslaved persons. |
| The Quakers | Which group organized the first American antislavery society? |
| National | _________ leaders reshape the government. |
| proposed | In September 1786, Alexander Hamilton _________ calling a convention in Philadelphia to discuss trade issues. |
| Edmund Randolph | ____________ introduced the Virginia Plan, which was largely the work of James Madison. |
| strong | The Virginia plan: vreated a _______ national government. |
| legislature | The Virginia plan: called for a two-house _________ a chief executive chosen by the legislature, and a court system. |
| population | The Virginia plan: made the number of representatives in legislature proportional to the __________ of each state. |
| small | The Virginia plan: was unpopular with the _______ states. |
| Paterson | William ________ proposed the New Jersey Plan, which was designed to simply amend the Articles of confederation. |
| George Washington | Who presided over the meetings at the Constitutional Convention? |
| National | On June 19, the states voted to work toward a __________ government based on the Virginia Plan that also satisfied the small states. |
| great compermise | Roger Sherman of Connecticut suggested a compromise for determining representation that came to be known as the _____________. |
| taxation | The Three-Fifths Compromise counted each enslaved person as three-fifths of free person for both _________ and representation. |
| southern | To keep the _________ states in the nation, Northerners agreed that the congress could not interfere with the slave trade until 1808. |
| constitution | George Mason proposed a bill of rights to be included in the _________ but his proposal was defeated. |
| Philedelphia | On September 17, 1787, the delegated assembled in _____________ to sign the constitution. |
| The Senate | According to the Great Compromise, in which house would each state be represented by two members? |
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