CHAPTER 13 KEY POINTS

THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT

• Legislative Branch- Passes Laws
• Executive Branch- Headed By A Leader Such As The President
• Judicial Branch- Interpret The Laws

SHAY'S REBELLION

• Shays' Rebellion is the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt.

NORTHWEST TERRITORY

• By the Treaty of Paris of 1783 , the U.S. Gained Lands from the British. The new lands went all the way to Mississippi River in the west. One portion of the lands was called the Northwest Territory.

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

• The goal of the Constitutional Convention was to revise the Articles of Confederation
• They ended up replacing the Articles with a new Constitution

VIRGINIA PLAN

• The Virginia Plan proposed that Congress be given much greater power over the states
• It also stated that the national government should have an executive branch to carry out laws created by Congress
• In addition the plan said the national government should have a judicial branch to interpret the laws passed by Congress

NEW JERSEY PLAN

• It stated that each state, large or small, would have the same number of representatives in Congress
• This way, all the states would have equal power.

FEDERALISTS

• A member or supporter of the federalists party.
• The Constitution gave the nationalists the strong national government they had wanted.
• They became known as the Federalists.

ANTIFEDERALIsTS

• Anti federalists were not happy with the Constitution

BENJAMIN RUSH

The first ten amendments became known as the Bill of Rights

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SOURCES

• Shays- history.com