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Confed. to Constit.
set # 7 (25-26)
| word | definition |
|---|---|
| levy | impose |
| Great Compromise | established a bicameral legislature with each state having 2 Senators & a number of members of the House of Representatives being based on the state's population |
| constitution | a written document that outlines a country's government |
| Articles of Confederation | America's first written constitution |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | an agreement between North & South that each owner could count three-fifths of his slaves in state's population |
| Constitutional Convention | The meeting of state delegates in 1787 in Philadelphia called to revise the AOC; it instead designed a new plan of government, the US Constitution. |
| confederation | a loose organization of the states with a weak central government & powerful state governments |
| compromise | an agreement made by sides that originally disagreed but worked together for the common good |