Dates/Places Flashcards
Bill of Rights?
December 15, 1791
The Federalists Papers?
October 1787- May 1788 (Published between)
Checks & Balances?
1787 (Introduced in the U.S. Constitution)
Three-Fifths Compromise?
1787 (Constitutional Convention)
The Great Compromise?
1787 (Constitutional Convention)
New Jersey Plan?
June 15, 1787
Virginia Plan?
May 29, 1787
Constitutional Convention?
May 25 - September 17, 1787
Shays’s Rebellion?
1786-1787
Interstate Commerce?
1787 (Addressed in Commerce Clause of the Constitution)
Land Ordinance?
1785
Northwest Ordinance?
1787
Articles of Confederation?
Drafted in 1777, ratified in 1781
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?
Written in 1777, passed in 1786
Where did the Constitutional Convention take place?
Independence Hall, Philadelphia. (PA State House)