| A | B |
|---|
| depression | a period when economic activity slows and unemployment rises. |
| Shay's Rebellion | Farmer's revolt of more than 1,000 people towards the federal arsenal in Mass. |
| manumission | freeing of individual enslaved persons. |
| James Madison | Virginia planter was pushing for change in the Articles. |
| Alexander Hamilton | NY lawyer pushing for change in the Articles. |
| Virginia Plan | two-house legislature with upper house being chosen by the lower house with proportional representation. |
| proportional | corresponding to the size of the population of each state. |
| NJ Plan | one-house legislature, with one vote for each state. |
| Great Compromise | Roger Sherman proposed two-house legislature, one on population, one with equal votes. |
| compromise | An agreement between two or more sides in which each side gives up something of what it wants. |
| 3/5ths Compromise | Compromise on how to count slave population in a state's population count. |
