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The Continental Congress (Sep 5 1774)was a convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies. It was also known as the Philadelphia Congress. It became the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution. The Congress met from 1774 to 1789 in three incarnations.

The Second Congress (May 10 1775) regulated the Colonial war effort and moved towards independence. It agreed to the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

]]> 2018-08-29 15:32:49 UTC https://padlet.com/300015903/et5ev68apxuc/wish/276279574 300015903 https://padlet.com/300015903/et5ev68apxuc/wish/276285421 2018-08-29 15:44:10 UTC https://padlet.com/300015903/et5ev68apxuc/wish/276285421 300015903 https://padlet.com/300015903/et5ev68apxuc/wish/276286587 The statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776. The Declaration announced that the Thirteen Colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, would regard themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states no longer under British rule. With the Declaration, these new states took a collective first step toward forming the United States of America.

]]> 2018-08-29 15:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/300015903/et5ev68apxuc/wish/276286587 300015903 https://padlet.com/300015903/et5ev68apxuc/wish/276610859 An agreement among the original 13 states of the US that served as its first constitution. It was approved, after much debate by the Second Continental Congress on November 15, 1777, and sent to the states for ratification. 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.

]]> 2018-08-30 14:57:58 UTC https://padlet.com/300015903/et5ev68apxuc/wish/276610859 300015903 https://padlet.com/300015903/et5ev68apxuc/wish/276612463 A proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. The plan was drafted by James Madison. The Virginia Plan was notable for its role in setting the overall agenda for debate in the convention and, in particular, for setting forth the idea of population weighted representation in the proposed national legislature. May 29 1787.

]]> 2018-08-30 15:01:11 UTC https://padlet.com/300015903/et5ev68apxuc/wish/276612463 300015903 https://padlet.com/300015903/et5ev68apxuc/wish/276615259 A proposal for the structure of the US Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787. The plan was created in response to the Virginia Plan, which called for two houses of Congress, both elected with apportionment according to population. The less populous states were adamantly opposed to giving most of the control of the national government to the more populous states, and so proposed an alternative plan that would have kept the one-vote-per-state representation under one legislative body from the Articles of Confederation. The New Jersey Plan was opposed by James Madison and Edmund Randolph, the proponents of the Virginia state Plan.

]]> 2018-08-30 15:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/300015903/et5ev68apxuc/wish/276615259 300015903 https://padlet.com/300015903/et5ev68apxuc/wish/276617188 A compromise reached among state delegates during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention. Whether, and if so, how, slaves would be counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxing purposes was important, as this population number would then be used to determine the number of seats that the state would have in the United States House of Representatives for the next ten years. The compromise solution was to count three out of every five slaves as a person for this purpose. Its effect was to give the southern states a third more seats in Congress and a third more electoral votes than if slaves had been ignored, but fewer than if slaves and free people had been counted equally, thus allowing the slaveholder interests to largely dominate the government of the United States until 1861.

]]> 2018-08-30 15:10:38 UTC https://padlet.com/300015903/et5ev68apxuc/wish/276617188 300015903 https://padlet.com/300015903/et5ev68apxuc/wish/276618828 The first political party in America. It existed from the early 1790s to 1816. It appealed to business and to conservatives who favored banks, national over state government, manufacturing, and (in world affairs) preferred Britain and opposed the French Revolution. The Federalists called for a strong national government that promoted economic growth and fostered friendly relationships with Great Britain as well as opposition to revolutionary France. The party controlled the federal government until 1801, when it was overwhelmed by the Democratic-Republic opposition led by Thomas Jefferson.

]]> 2018-08-30 15:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/300015903/et5ev68apxuc/wish/276618828 300015903 https://padlet.com/300015903/et5ev68apxuc/wish/276621160 a movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the 1787 Constitution. The previous constitution, called the Articles of Confederation, gave state governments more authority. Led by Patrick Henry of Virginia, Anti-Federalists worried, among other things, that the position of president, then a novelty, might evolve into a monarchy. Though the Constitution was ratified and supplanted the Articles of Confederation, Anti-Federalist influence helped lead to the passage of the Bill of Rights.

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