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32 Cards in this Set
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Articles of Confederation
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written agreement ratified in 1781 by the thirteen original states; it provided a legal symbol of their union by giving the central government no coercive power over the states or their citizens
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Land Ordinance of 1785
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The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted by the United States Congress on May 20, 1785. Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress did not have the power to raise revenue by direct taxation of the inhabitants of the United States
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Northwest Ordinance
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ormally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also known as the Freedom Ordinance
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Constitutional Convention
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the convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787
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Theory of State Sovereignty
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The doctrine of divided state sovereignty was fashioned by the American revolutionaries.
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Society of the Cincinnati
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ounded in 1783 to preserve the ideals and fellowship of the Revolutionary War officers and to pressure the government to honor pledges it had made to officers who fought for America
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Primogeniture
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ight of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son
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John Woolman
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as an itinerant Quaker preacher, traveling throughout the American colonies, advocating against conscription, military taxation, and particularly slavery.
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Federalist Number 10
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s an essay by James Madison and the tenth of the Federalist Papers, a series arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution.
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Shays Rebellion
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an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts
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Virginia Plan
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was a proposal by Virginia delegates, drafted by James Madison while he waited for a quorum to assemble at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787.
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Committee of Detail
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stablished by the Philadelphia Convention on June 23, 1787 to put down a draft text reflecting the agreements made by the Convention up to that point, including the Virginia Plan's 15 resolutions.
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Federalists vs Anti-Federalists
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the original two parties who helped create the Constitution were the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Parties. Even then, our Founding Fathers, were separated into two factions who did not see eye to eye.
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Jay-Gardoqui Treaty
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between the United States and Spain guaranteed Spain's exclusive right to navigate the Mississippi River for 25 years. It also opened Spain's European and West Indian seaports to American shipping.
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Federalist #84
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an essay entitled "Certain General and Miscellaneous Objections to the Constitution Considered and Answered," is one of the Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, published under the pseudonym Publius on May 28, 1788.
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Montesquieu
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French political theorist who analyzed different government constitutions and developed the theory upon which the separation of powers is based.
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3/5 Compromise
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was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for enumeration purposes
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William Paterson
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was a New Jersey statesman, a signer of the U.S. Constitution, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, who served as the 2nd governor of New Jersey, from 1790 to 1793.
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Republican
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the political orientation of those who hold that a republic is the best form of government
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Benjamin Banneker
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was a free African American astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, almanac author and farmer.
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Phyllis Wheatley
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was the first African American poet and the first African-American woman whose writings were published.
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Society for the Relief of Free Negroes
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The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was the first American abolition society.
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Henry Knox
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was an American bookseller from Boston who became the chief artillery officer of the Continental Army and later the nation's first secretary of war.
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Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania
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is a series of essays written by the Pennsylvania lawyer and legislator John Dickinson (1732–1808) and published under the name "A Farmer" from 1767 to 1768.
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New Jersey Plan
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proposal presented by New Jersey delegates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention which recommended that Congress be unicameral, and that all states be equally represented in Congress. Small states developed the proposal to counter the Virginia Plan.
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Anti-Federalists
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is a political philosophy which opposes the concept of Federalism. In short, Anti-Federalists dictate that the central governing authority of a nation should be equal or inferior to, but not having more power than, its sub-national states
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Bill of Rights
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a statement of fundamental rights and privileges (especially the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution)
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Robert Morris
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leader of the American Revolution who signed the Declaration of Independence and raised money for the Continental Army
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John Jay
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United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court
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James Madison
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4th President of the United States; member of the Continental Congress and rapporteur at the Constitutional Convention in 1776; helped frame the Bill of Rights
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Governor Morris
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was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a native of New York who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
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Status of Slavery
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north- dying out
south- strengthened because of cotton gin |
