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First Continental Congress
represenatives from 12 of the 13 colonies came together to talk about the intolerable acts. -
Second Continental Congress
all 13 deglegates from each colony met up in Philadelphia after the revolutionary war to discuss the cononial war effort. -
The Declaration of Independance
created by the second continental congress to assert there freedom again the british and to establish our way of living. -
Articles of Confederation
the 13 colonies created an agreement saying the central gov had no power of the people that was later replaced by the U.S. constitution. -
the three fifths compromise
the slaves vote is counted as three fifths of a person instead of a whole vote -
Virginia Plan
placed an outline on what the constitution should look like. -
Conneticut Compromise
large and small states would each have the same amount of a vote -
New Jersey Plan
made after virginia plan has two houses of congress both elected by popular vote. -
the ratification of the constitution
A legal document which before getting to become a law had to get oked by the public by created a new form of government instead of just fixing up the old one.
