Unicameral Legislature - A one-house legislature (or law-making body). Under the Articles of Confederation the U.S. legislative branch was unicameral., Central Government - National or Federal Government. A government that acts for all the states within the country., Ordinance - Official order, Northwest Ordinance of 1787 - Established a process for helping the new territories create their own governments and eventually be added as states. An achievement of the Articles and PROHIBITTED SLAVERY THE NEW TERRITORIES., Shay's Rebellion - Rebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787, protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as the call for the Constitutional Convention went out., Articles of Confederation - America's first constitution that failed because it was too weak., Constitutional Convention - Meeting of state delegates in 1787 in Philadelphia called to revise the AoC. It instead designed a new plan of government- the US Constitution., Virginia Plan - Big State Plan- proportional representation in Congress (based on population)., New Jersey Plan - Small State Plan- unicameral (one house) legislature in which all states would have an equal number of votes, Great Compromise - Agreement that created a bicameral legislature in which each state has 2 votes in the Senate; and in the House of Representatives the number of representatives is based on a states population, 100 - total number of Senators (2 per state), 435 - total number of members of the House of Representatives (based on population),

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