AP US History Unit 3 Constitutions Flashcards

5148335179	Articles of Confederation	placed the coercive powers to tax and regulate trade within the individual state governments, created a weak central government	0
5148335180	Land Ordinance of 1785	demanded that Western Territories be surveyed in six-mile-square townships before sale	1
5148337128	Northwest Ordinance of 1787	established governments for the West	2
5148340456	Spain closes Mississippi to the Americas	in 1784, the Spanish closed the Mississippi River to commerce, blocking settlers living beyond the Appalachians from goods	3
5148346949	economic issues under AOC	high amounts of debt after Revolutionary War, no federal authority to tax, and no federal authority to enforce American borders and trade rights	4
5149679842	Shay's Rebellion	in 1786, Daniel Shays and his followers marched on Springfield to prevent the Massachusetts Supreme Court from meeting to prevent foreclosures. They were routed but still won some concessions	5
5149679843	Annapolis Convention	1786 convention in Maryland of all states to discuss common problems of commerce. Only five delegates appeared, so no changes were made	6
5149681919	Constitutional Convention of 1787	convention proposed by Alexander Hamilton to fix defects in Articles of Confederation. It eventually drafted the Constitution	7
5149681920	Virginia Plan	a plan that supported representation based on state population that was drafted by James Madison and presented by Edmund Randolph	8
5149684131	James Madison	drafted the Virginia plan, one of the authors of the Federalist Papers	9
5149684132	Edmund Randolph	presented the Virginia Plan	10
5149686599	New Jersey Plan	a plan that supported equal representation regardless of state population that was presented by William Paterson	11
5149686600	William Paterson	presented the New Jersey Plan	12
5149686601	Great Compromise	a bill would need to pass both the House of Representatives and Senate to become a law. The House of Representative would be based on population, while the Senate would grant two senators to each state	13
5149689347	Three-Fifths Compromise	3/5ths of a slave count towards taxation and representation purposes	14
5149691771	Electoral College	a system for electing presidents, where states are granted electors based on their population	15
5149693458	judicial review	courts can annul laws if they are against the Constitution	16
5149693459	federalists	people who favored the Constitution	17
5149693460	antifederalists	people who opposed the Constitution	18
5149695947	Federalist Papers	a series of essays defending the Constitution	19
5149748087	Alexander Hamilton	proposed the Constitutional Convention, one of the authors of the Federalist Papers	20