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Articles of Confederation
The articles of the confederation were an agreement of the 13 colonies that served as the first constitution. -
Shays Rebellion
Shays Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts, mostly in and around Springfield. American Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels in a protest against perceived economic and civil rights injustices -
The Great Compromise
The Great Compromise was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. -
Philadelphia's constitutional convention
the Convention was intended to revise the league of states and first system of government under the Articles of Confederation, the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison of Virginia and Alexander Hamilton of New York, was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one
