constitution - outline of government, Fugitive Slave Law - agreement that the southern slave owners could recapture runaway slaves in the North, Articles of Confederation - United States' First Constitution, Three fifths Compromise - compromise in which the North and the South agreed to count 3/5s of the slave population for representation in Congress and also for taxation, John Dickinson - wrote the Articles of Confederation, James Madison - father of the United States Constitution, Shays' Rebellion - rebellion of farmers in Mass. which proved a need for a stronger central government, Great Compromise - compromise in which there are two houses in Congress. The Senate (equal representation from each state) and the House of Representatives (# of representatives is based on the state's population), New Jersey Plan - plan in which the smaller states approved of, each state had equal representation, Virginia Plan - Plan that the larger states wanted; representation was based on population, Constitutional Convention - meeting in which the "Founding Fathers" wrote the United States Constitution,

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