Examples of New Jersey Plan in the following topics:
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- In the Constitutional Convention, the Virginia Plan favored large states while the New Jersey Plan favored small states.
- After the Virginia Plan was introduced, New Jersey delegate William Paterson asked for an adjournment to contemplate the Plan.
- Paterson's New Jersey Plan was ultimately a rebuttal to the Virginia Plan .
- Ultimately, the New Jersey Plan was rejected as a basis for a new constitution.
- The Virginia Plan was used, but some ideas from the New Jersey Plan were added.
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- The New Jersey Plan was a counter-proposal for the structure of the federal government presented by William Paterson.
- The New Jersey plan was created in response to the Virginia Plan, which called for two houses of Congress both elected with apportionment according to population.
- The New Jersey Plan, on the other hand, proposed a unicameral legislature in which each state, regardless of size, would have one vote, as under the Articles of Confederation.
- Ultimately, the Virginia Plan was used, but some ideas from the New Jersey Plan were added.
- House of Representatives, apportioned by population as desired by the Virginia Plan, and the Senate, granted equal votes per state as desired by the New Jersey Plan.
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- At the Constitutional Convention, the Virginia, Pinckney, New Jersey, and Hamilton plans gave way to the Connecticut Compromise.
- After the Virginia Plan was introduced, New Jersey delegate William Paterson asked for an adjournment to contemplate the plan.
- Paterson's New Jersey Plan was ultimately a rebuttal to the Virginia Plan.
- Under the New Jersey Plan, the unicameral legislature with one vote per state was inherited from the Articles of Confederation.
- Unsatisfied with the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan, Alexander Hamilton proposed his own plan.
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- James Madison's plan, known as the Virginia Plan, was the most important plan.
- After the Virginia Plan was introduced, New Jersey delegate William Paterson asked for an adjournment to contemplate the plan.
- Paterson's New Jersey Plan was ultimately a rebuttal to the Virginia Plan.
- Under the New Jersey Plan, the unicameral legislature with one vote per state was inherited from the Articles of Confederation .
- In a sense, it blended the Virginia (large-state) and New Jersey (small-state) proposals.
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- This plan also proposed a bicameral legislature.
- This system of equal representation was detailed in William Paterson's New Jersey Plan.
- New Jersey Plans was contentious and almost threatened to shut the convention down.
- The Compromise indicated that each state would be given equal representation (as per the New Jersey Plan) in one house of Congress and proportional representation (as per the Virginia Plan) in the other.
- The free states found the compromise negligible when compared with the ultimate goal of writing a new governing document, and slave states were satisfied by this provision and agreed to support the plan.
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- In contrast, the New Jersey Plan proposed a unicameral legislature in which each state, regardless of size, would have one vote.
- House of Representatives apportioned by population as desired by the Virginia Plan, and the Senate granted equal votes per state as desired by the New Jersey Plan—combining the two plans in a workable whole.
- For women, the right to vote remained out of reach except in the state of New Jersey.
- Federalists and Democratic-Republicans competed for the votes of New Jersey women who met the requirements to cast ballots.
- This radical innovation continued until 1807, when New Jersey restricted voting to free white males.
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- Although Howe was successful in driving Washington out of New York City, he was unsuccessful in taking New Jersey.
- The defeats convinced General Howe to withdraw most of his army from New Jersey, only leaving outposts at New Brunswick and Perth Amboy.
- The areas around New York City in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut were an ongoing battleground for the rest of the war.
- Map of the New York-New Jersey Campaign during the American Revolution.
- Map of the New York-New Jersey Campaign during the American Revolution.
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- In the early stages of the American Revolution, battles over Quebec, New York, and New Jersey played an important role in the war.
- In mid-December, Washington
planned a two-pronged attack on an outpost in Trenton, including a third
diversionary attack in Bordentown.
- After both British and
Continental Army troops entered their winter quarters in early January,
Continental Army forces from New Jersey and Pennsylvania engaged in numerous
scouting and harassing operations against British and German troops quartered
in New Jersey.
- The Continental Army was bolstered during these
skirmishes by a large number of militia from New Jersey, New York, and
Pennsylvania.
- Northern and coastal New Jersey continued to be the site of
skirmishing and raiding by the British forces that occupied New York City for
the duration of the war.
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- King James II granted the land between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers to two friends and named it New Jersey after the island of Jersey.
- The Dutch claimed New Jersey first.
- The governors of New York then ruled New Jersey, which infuriated the settlers of New Jersey.
- In 1738, King George II appointed a separate governor for New Jersey.
- Bowen Map of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and New England; ca. 1747
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- Virginia, South Carolina, and New Jersey created their constitutions before July 4.
- In states where the less-affluent had organized sufficiently to acquire significant power—especially Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New Hampshire—the resulting constitutions often contained:
- Universal white male suffrage, or minimal property requirements for voting or holding office (New Jersey enfranchised some property-owning widows, a step it retracted 25 years later)
- The Declaration of Rights and Plan of Government for the State of New Hampshire.
- New Hampshire was the first state to create a new constitution, in 1776, at the urging of the Continental Congress.