As part of the Great Compromise, each state would have three Representatives and Senators in Congress.

After the French and Indian War, the British government established this boundary to keep colonists and Native Americans apart.  

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”  This famous phrase is from the Declaration of Independence, primarily written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, expressing the Enlightenment ideas of natural rights and equality.

Under Alexander Hamilton’s economic program, the new federal government would do all of the following EXCEPT 

By 1786, political and economic turmoil convinced many Americans of the  

Delegates to the Second Continental Congress had no trouble voting to declare their independence from Great Britain.

Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress would NOT have the power to 

At the Philadelphia Convention in 1787, delegates from 12 states came together to revise the Declaration of Independence.

Written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, the ____________________ constituted a series of essays to explain the Constitution and promote its ratification.

Anti-Federalists were opponents of the Constitution who wanted strong state governments and a weaker federal government.