1787 - year the U.S. Constitution was written, Constitutional Convention - meeting held in 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation, New Jersey Plan - supported by the small stats; asked for equal representation in Congress, Virginia Plan - supported by the large states; asked for representation based on population in Congress, Great Compromise - solved the issue of representation in Congress; created a bicameral legislature, bicameral Congress - two houses; Senate and House of Representatives, Three-Fifths Compromise - solved the issue of how slaves would be counted; for purposes of representation and taxation slaves would be counted as three-fifths of a white person, Federalists - people who supported the ratification of the Constitution, Anti-Federalists - people who opposed the ratification of the Constitution, Articles of Confederation - created a weak national government and a strong state government; replaced by the U.S. Constitution, Shays' Rebellion - revealed the weaknesses of the national government under the Articles of Confederation, James Madison - author of the Virginia Plan and known as the father of the Constitution, George Mason - refused to sign the Constitution because it did not include a Bill of Rights,

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