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A plan proposed a new Federal Constitution that will give sovereignty or extreme power to the central government was the blank this plan was like spy big States |
Virginia Plan |
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The blank is the branch of government that executes or carries out the law and is headed by the president this Branch enforces the law |
Executive branch |
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Those people who supported the Constitution were called blank these people are Washington James Madison and Benjamin Franklin |
Federalist |
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Often the number of free African-Americans increased because some state laws encourage the blank or the freeing of individual enslaved persons |
Manumission |
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Blank is the sharing of power between the state governments and federal government |
Federalism |
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A special group called the blank specifically elects the president and vice president it is made up of electors from each state |
Electoral college |
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The blank called for a one-house legislature and was liked by small states |
New Jersey Plan |
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Most states as well as the legislative branch is blank meaning it has two separate lawmaking Chambers |
Bicameral |
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And blank is an official change correction or Improvement added to a document |
Amendment |
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A government in which citizens rule through elected representatives is called a blank |
Republic |
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The blank states that only three fifths of a state's slave population would be counted toward representation |
Three-Fifths Compromise |
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The blank was added to the Constitution and promised the protection of individual rights |
Bill of Rights |
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By the middle of the American Revolution the currency had blank or falling in value that it was almost worth nothing |
Depreciate |
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A blank is when there is an increase in prices for goods and services combined with a reduction in the value of money |
Depression |
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Economic troubles at Farmer's hard this cause blank which is a Revolt that was started by farmers in three Western Massachusetts counties |
Shay's Rebellion |
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Those people who opposed the Constitution were called |
Anti-Federalists |
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The blank is the branch of government that includes the courts that settled disputes and questions of the law this Branch interprets the law |
Judicial branch |
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The blank was the nation's first Constitution that was created by the thirteenth member committee appointed by the Second Continental Congress |
Articles of Confederation |
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An agreement known as the blank had helped the bicameral legislature we have today with equal representation in the Senate and representatives representation based on population in the House of Representatives |
Great Compromise |
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A Constitution contains a system of blank which means each branch of government limits power of the other branches |
Checks and balances |
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The blank passed in 1787 created a single Northwest Territory from lands north of the Ohio river and east of the Mississippi River |
Northwest Ordinance |
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The blank is the lawmaking branch of the government that includes Congress this branch makes the laws |
Legislative branch |
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