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3 out of every 5 slaves equaled 1

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The Connecticut Compromise gave congress 2 houses, states senates were equal, and representation

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The New Jersey Plan increased tax and regulation, and gave each state equal votes

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The Virginia Plan called for a strong national government, 3 branches, favored states, and had votes based on population.

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Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts during 1786 and 1787. Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels in an uprising against perceived economic and civil rights injustices.

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The Articles created a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government, leaving most of the power with the state governments. The need for a stronger Federal government soon became apparent and eventually led to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. The present United States Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation on March 4, 1789.

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The Articles of Confederation came into force on March 1, 1781, after being ratified by all 13 states. A guiding principle of the Articles was to preserve the Independence and sovereignty of the states. The federal government received only those powers which the colonies had recognized as belonging to king and parliament.

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The Articles of Confederation was an agreement among the 13 original states of the U.S. that served as its first constitution. Its drafting by a committee appointed by the Second Continental Congress began on July 12, 1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification on November 15, 1777.

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Popular sovereignty, limited government, civil rights & liberties, and separation of powers & checks and balances.

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Thomas Jefferson was credited for writing the Declaration of Independence and got most of his ideas and inspiration from Documents by John Locke.

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On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress selects Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut and Robert R. Livingston of New York to draft a declaration of independence.

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On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee proposed independace from Great Britain.

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The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

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The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years’ War (1756-63) and looking to its North American colonies as a revenue source. Arguing that only their own representative assemblies could tax them, the colonists insisted that the act was unconstitutional, and they resorted to mob violence to intimidate stamp collectors into resigning.

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The colonists were not allowed to choose representatives to parliament in London, which passed the laws under which they were taxed.

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On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.

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The English settlers brought with them a knowledge of the English political system, like laws, customs, and practices.

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Although colonies were technically under control of the crown, they were so far away that they had assumed large law making powers.

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Charters were granted to the colonies themselves by the king

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The king made a land grant to a proprietor.

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Subject to the direct control of the king.

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Limited the kings power, challenged the kings power, challenged the idea of divine right of kings, declared even royalty must obey the law of the land.

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Established the principle that monarchy did not have absolute power, right of trail by jury, due process of law. protection against the arbitrary taking of life, liberty, and property.

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The government is to serve the will of the people.

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Government is not all powered, it is limited and individuals have some right of what it should do.

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Took power from the king, and gave power to the parliament.

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Orderly regulation of different levels of government with each other.