| A | B |
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| Daniel Shays | leader of rebellion in MA in 1786 |
| Springfield | site of uprising and clash between Shay's rebels and state militia |
| James Madison | A Virginia planter viewed as the author of the Constitution |
| Alexander Hamilton | New York Lawyer who proposed a Philidelphia convention where the Constitution was written |
| Philidelphia | site of the Constitutional Convention |
| Edmund Randolph | Former Gov. of Virginia who proposed the Virginia Plan |
| Virginia Plan | Proposed state representation be based on population |
| William Paterson | Proposed the New Jersey Plan of equal state representation |
| Roger Sherman | Proposed the Great Compromise |
| Great Compromise | 2 house Congress - one house where states are equal, and one based on population |
| Three Fifths Compromise | Slaves counted as 3/5 a free person for representation and taxes |
| Depression | A period of slow economic activity & high unemployment |
| Manumission | to free an individual slave person |
| proportional | when the number of representatives in Congress corresponds to the size of a population |
| compromise | Agreement where two sides give up some of what they want to reach an agreement |
| New Jersey Plan | Proposal that States be equal in a one house Congress |
| Commerce Compromise | Congress given power to regulate foreign trade and place tarifs on imports (not exports). |
| ratify | to approve |
| Bill of Rights | A guarentee of indivdual freedoms |
| Free African Society | organization to help freed slaves adjust to freedom in US |
