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38 Cards in this Set
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Wrote letters inviting delegates to what became known as the Constitutional Convention
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Alexander Hamilton
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Additions
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Amendments
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The place where Congress met in 1787 to fix the Articles of Confederation
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Annapolis
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Opponents of the Constitution
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Antifederalists
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Left the central government weak and gave most of the power to the states
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Articles of Confederation
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A document that describes the basic rights of the people
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Bill of Rights
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Was formed by the heads of the departments and the Attorney General
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Cabinet
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The powers of one branch of government are balanced by the powers of another. Each branch can check, or stop, another branch
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Checks and Balances
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A Massachusetts farmer who organized over a thousand farmers to protest against the heavy taxes on land
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Daniel Shays
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The concept of the people holding the power in a country
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Democracy
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Headed by the President, this branch carries out the laws made by Congress
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Executive Branch
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The division of power of government between the states and the central government given by the constitution
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Federal System
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Supporters of the Constitution
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Federalists
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Wrote The Demand for Rights, this country's first Bill of Rights, as part of Virginia's constitution
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George Mason
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The only president to ever receive every electoral college vote
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George Washington
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Wrote the Constitution by putting together the resolutions and decisions of the Convention
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Gouverneur Morris
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Stated that the new Congress would have two seperate houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate
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Great Compromise
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Came to the convention 11 days early and read all about the governments of other countries
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James Madison
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He is said to be " the best informed man on any point in the debate"
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James Madison
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Decides the meaning of laws
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Judicial Branch
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A lawmaking body called the Congress that would make laws for the country and raise money for the central government
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Legislative Branch
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Gave all states the same # of representatives in the central government
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New Jersey Plan
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The country's temporary capital in 1789
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NYC (New York City)
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Passed in 1787, this law set out a plan for new territories to become states
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Northwest Ordinance
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Land that became the states of Indiana , Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois and was part of the Treaty of Paris
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Northwest Territory
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Groups of people who share similar ideas about government
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Political parties
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The introduction to the Constitution
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Preamble
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Officially approve
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Ratify
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A system of government in which the people choose representatives to make the laws and run the government
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Republic
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A former slave that started the Free African Society in 1787, which was the first organized movement for rights by Africans in North America
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Richard Allen
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A judge from Connecticut that saved the Convention by proposing the Great Compromise
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Roger Sherman
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The title given to each head of office in the three government departments needed to run the government
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Secretary
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The bloody protest between Daniel Shay's farmers and the local Massachusetts militia
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Shay's Rebellion
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To become a state
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Statehood
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A body of judges who head the judicial branch
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Supreme Court
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An area of land that belongs to a government
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Territory
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To refuse to approve
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Veto
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Madison's plan that he already worked out before the Constitutional Convention began and was presented by Virginia's popular governer, Edmund Randolph
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Virginia Plan
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