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44 Cards in this Set
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Magna
Carta |
a document that made
the king have to obey English law |
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English Bill
of Rights |
a bill passed in 1689
that reduced the powers of the English monarch |
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constitution
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a set of laws that states
what the government can and cannot do/ a written plan of government |
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Virginia
Stature for Religious Freedom |
a document that said
people could not be forced to attend a church and they did not have to pay for a church with tax money |
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suffrage
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the right to vote
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Articles of
Confederation |
our first national constitution
under which the United States was governed by a Confederation Congress |
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ratification
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official approval
Hint: The states ratified the Articles of Confederation. |
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Land
Ordinance of 1785 |
a system passed by
Congress for dividing western lands |
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Northwest
Ordinance of 1787 |
a political system
passed by Congress for the Northwest Territory |
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Northwest
Territory |
areas that are now part
of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin |
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tariffs
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taxes on imports or
exports |
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interstate
commerce |
trade between two or
more states |
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depression
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a period of low
economic activity when a lot of people lose their jobs |
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Daniel
Shays |
a Revolutionary War
veteran who led a rebellion against high taxes and heavy debt in Massachusetts |
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Shays’s
Rebellion |
uprising of farmers, led
by Daniel Shays, to protest taxes and debt |
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Constitutional
Convention |
a meeting held to
improve the Articles of Confederation, during which a new Constitution was written |
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delegate
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a state representative
who speaks about issues |
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James
Madison |
a Virginia delegate who
attended the Constitutional Convention |
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Virginia
Plan |
a plan presented by
Virginia delegate Edmund Randolph that would give supreme power to the central government |
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New Jersey
Plan |
a plan presented by New
Jersey delegate William Paterson that would give each state an equal number of votes in government |
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Great
Compromise |
a compromise
(agreement) presented by Connecticut delegate Roger Sherman that created a two-house legislature |
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Three-Fifths
Compromise |
a compromise
(agreement) that allowed each slave to be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining population |
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popular
sovereignty |
the idea that political
authority belongs to the people (population) |
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federalism
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the sharing of power
between a central (federal) government and the states |
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legislative
branch |
branch of government
that produces and passes legislation (laws); also called Congress |
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executive
branch |
the branch of
government, including the president, that makes sure laws are carried out |
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judicial
branch |
the branch of
government that interprets (explains) laws, punishes criminals, and settles arguments between states |
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checks and
balances |
a system which keeps
the branches of government in check (control) by not allowing any branch to have too much power |
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Antifederalists
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people who opposed the
Constitution |
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George
Mason |
a delegate who became
an Antifederalist because the Constitution did not have a section that promised individual rights |
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Federalists
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supporters of the
Constitution |
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advocate
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speak in favor of
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Federalist
Papers |
essays supporting the
Constitution |
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amendments
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official changes
Hint: Amend means “to change |
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Bill of
Rights |
the first ten amendments
to the Constitution intended to protect citizens’ rights |
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Ratify
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Approval
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Voting Rights
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Sufferage
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James Madison
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The Father of the Constitution
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Delaware
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The first state to ratify the Constitution
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The Federal Government
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Americans wer eafraid of giving too much power to Whom/What?
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Social Contract
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The idea that a contract exist between people and government in which people give power to the federal government and government agrees to protect the people.
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The Senate
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The body of congress that is most like the small states plan. (New Jersey
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The House of Represenatives
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The body of Congress that is most like the Large states Plan (Virginia)
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Congress
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Body made up of both the house and the Senate
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