Contritutional Convention

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    represenatives from 12 of the 13 colonies came together to talk about the intolerable acts.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    all 13 deglegates from each colony met up in Philadelphia after the revolutionary war to discuss the cononial war effort.
  • The Declaration of Independance

    The Declaration of Independance

    created by the second continental congress to assert there freedom again the british and to establish our way of living.
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation

    the 13 colonies created an agreement saying the central gov had no power of the people that was later replaced by the U.S. constitution.
  • the three fifths compromise

    the three fifths compromise

    the slaves vote is counted as three fifths of a person instead of a whole vote
  • Virginia Plan

    Virginia Plan

    placed an outline on what the constitution should look like.
  • Conneticut Compromise

    Conneticut Compromise

    large and small states would each have the same amount of a vote
  • New Jersey Plan

    New Jersey Plan

    made after virginia plan has two houses of congress both elected by popular vote.
  • the ratification of the constitution

    the ratification of the constitution

    A legal document which before getting to become a law had to get oked by the public by created a new form of government instead of just fixing up the old one.