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9 Cards in this Set
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1) Congress had the authority to conduct foreign affairs, maintain armed forces, borrow money, and issue currency. Congress couldn't regulate trade, force citizen to join the army, and impose taxes. If the Congress needed money or troops, it had to ask the legislature. 2) Congress had the authority to conduct foreign affairs, maintain armed forces, borrow money, and issue currency. 3) Congress couldn't regulate trade, force citizen to join the army, and impose taxes. 4) The Americans won their freedom from GB and aided with aiding and governing the nation's western territories. 5) The consent of all the states was required, 6) 9 states had to approve it. |
Articles of Confederation |
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1) A period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity is stopped and is not producing. 2) Southern plantation were destroyed, the trade decreased and the money they did have went toward the war debts leaving America in a currency shortage. |
Depression |
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1) Daniel Shays was the leader of this rebellion. 2) The farmers were in this rebellion. 3) They were rebelling because they couldn't pay the war debt and the state officials were taking away their land. 4) They viewed the government as a new kind of tyranny. 5) They forced court to close so judges couldn't take away farmers' land. 6) The militia fired and four farmers were killed. 7) They learned that the government is still weak. |
Shay's Rebellion |
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1) Edmund Randolph wrote this plan. 2) It was a bicameral legislature, a chief executive chosen by the legislature, and the legislature would be chosen by the people. The number of representatives would be proportional to the population of the state. 3) The small states didn't like this because they would have less representatives in the houses than the others would. 4) Supporters of this plan wanted a stronger government |
Virginia Plan |
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1) William Paterson wrote this plan. 2) It was a one-house legislature with one vote for each state and Congress could set taxes and regulate trade. Congress would elect a weak executive branch. |
New Jersey Plan |
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1) They wanted to discuss trade issues. 2) He changed his mind because of Shays rebellion. 3) The 55 delegates included planters, merchants, lawyers, physicians, governors, and a college president. 4) 9 states out of 13 had to vote yes on changes to the Articles. 5) 7 out of 13 states had to be present to hold a meeting. |
Constitutional Convention |
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1) To make small changes in a text. 2) The Constitutional Convention made amends to the Articles of Confederation. |
Amend |
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1) This is when the slaves of America where counted as three-fifths of a free citizen. 2) This was created because people wanted their slaves to count as part of their population so they said that the slaves were going to count as three-fifths of a free person. 3) The slave states thought that because they had a lot of slaves that they could use those numbers to get more people in the House of Representatives. 4) Earlier the southern states said that the slaves they own are private property so when they wanted them to count toward the population the Northerners got mad. |
Three-Fifths Compromise |
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1) Roger Sherman crossed the two plans and made a new plan for the government. It is a bicameral legislature, in the House of representatives the number of seats would depend on the population of the state, in the Senate there would only be two representatives for each state. 2) It seems fair because he picked out the best qualities in each one and combined them. |
The Great Compromise |
