What is the Stamp Act and why did it happen?
What is the Great Compromise?
How is the President of the United States elected?
What is the Continental Congress?
How many votes are needed to pass a bill?
What is proportional representation?
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
What is unicameral?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Why did the articles of confederation not work?
What is equal representation?
What is a confederation?
What is bicameral?
Currently how many Senators does each state get?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Currently how many representatives does Nevada Have?
The first constitution of the United States
It is a tax imposed on colonists to pay for the French Indian war.
Just one form of our central government – Congress, there was no president, house of representative, or judicial system.
Large and small states each got a little of what they wanted. Congress would be bicameral. The House of Representatives would be elected by the people and follow the system of proportional representation, and the Senate would have equal representation of the states.
Very weak government, could not impose national laws – tax system – weak military
A group of individuals united together for a purpose (13 states)
The number of representative from each state would be determined based on the state’s population. The more people in a state, the more representatives they could have in both houses of congress.
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1774 – 1789 served as the first government of the 13 colonies
Counting 3 out of 5 slaves for its population which counted for both representation and taxation.
218 out of 435 to pass a bill – the bill moves to senate. 51 out of 100 in the senate need to agree on the bill for it to pass.
Every state had one vote (when making laws and passing bills)
Thomas Jefferson
Through the Electoral College
Two chamber legislature with proportional representation. Congress would be made up of House of Representative and the Senate.
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