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SS Unit 5 Ch 2 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alexander Hamilton | a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, served in the Revolutionary War and thought the Articles needed to be replaced by a new plan with a stronger central government. |
| James Madison | Called the "Father of the Constitution" and played a key role at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He also kept detailed notes of the debates that occurred at the convention, providing the best record of what occurred there. m |
| republican government | the people elect representatives to speak for them, or to represent their interests in a lawmaking body. |
| amend | to change or add to a law or document |
| George Washington | chaired the Constitutional Convention |
| Constitutional Convention | a conference held in Philadelphia in which state delegates met to frame the United States Constitution |
| Virginia Plan | proposed by James Madison and presented by Edmund Randolph, was a plan for a new government structure for the United States that represented the wants of the states with large populations |
| Edmund Randolph | led the Virginia delegation in his role as governor and presented the Virginia Plan |
| William Paterson | New Jersey delegate who proposed amending the Articles instead of replacing them and put forth an alternate plan called the the New Jersey Plan or small state plan |
| New Jersey Plan | represented the less populated states and wanted each state in the nation to have an equal amount of representatives in government |
| federal | relating to a system of government in which the national government shares power with other levels of government such as states |
| compromise | an agreement reached when each side gives up some of what it wants to end a disagreement |
| house | word used to describe a body of legislators with a particular role |
| senate | the upper house, representation would be equal for all states |
| bicameral system | a type of organization in which two related parts work together |
| Roger Sherman | a delegate from Connecticut who proposed the solution to use both forms of representation in Congress, know as the Great Compromise |
| The Great Compromise | use both forms of representation in Congress: Representation in the House of Representatives (the lower house) would be based on population and the Representation in the Senate (the upper house) would be equal for all states |
| House of Representatives | the lower house, representation based on population |
| Three-fifths Compromise | when calculating each state's population to determine the number of representatives each state should have in the house, five enslaved workers would count as three free white persons |
| import | to bring goods into one country from another |
| abolition movement | an international movement that was growing to end the practice of slavery once and for all |
| Olaudah Equiano | wrote an autobiography- his description of the Middle Passage- in was published in 1789 and it was the first book of its type to receive worldwide attention |
| Benjamin Banneker | free African American mathematician, inventor, and opponent of slavery who wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson asking him to take action to improve the lives of African Americans |
| precedence | priority or first importance |
| Supremacy Clause | establishes that federal law and the federal constitution take precedence over state laws and constitutions |
| Commerce Clause | gives Congress the power " to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes" |
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