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20 Cards in this Set
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What was favored by most large state delegates?
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The Virignia Plan
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Who was the main author of the Articles of Confederation?
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John Dickinson
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Who presented the New Jersey Plan?
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William Paterson
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What law provided an orderly plan for settling land north of the Ohio River?
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Land Ordinance of 1785
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What Ordinance made provisions for governing Northwest Territory?
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Northwest Ordinance
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Who refused to attends the Constitutional Convention?
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Patrick Henery
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Who led the rebellion in September 1786?
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Daniel Shays
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Who was the first to arrive at the Constitutional Convention?
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James Madison
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Who was the oldest delegate at the Constitutional Convention?
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Benjamin Franklin
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What was the solution for counting enslaved persons as people?
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Three-fifths compromise
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By 1804 every state north of Maryland passed laws to...
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Free enslaved African Americans
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The Articles of Confederation were approved in about....
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four years
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In May 1776 Congress urged the colonies to replace their colonial charters with....
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constitutions
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After the revolutionary War, many farmers could not....
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pay their debts
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the writers built safeguards into the Constituion so one branch could not be stronger than the other brances. What is this called?
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checks and balances
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Rhode island did not send a delegate to the Constitutional Convention because it did not....
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want a stronger central government
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Under the Varginia Plan, the President would be choosen by the.....
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Congress
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The idea of limiting the power of a ruler was taken from the Magna Carta which was from where?
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England
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John Locke wrote that the people have natural right to life, liberty, and
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property
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Some people refer to the national government as the...
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federal government
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