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26 Cards in this Set
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Quakers |
Organized the first antislavery society |
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Articles of confederation |
Set up a one house legislature called congress |
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James Madison |
Wrote the Virginia plan |
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Popular Sovereignty |
Important part of early state constitutions(governments consent) |
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Checks and balances |
Made by the farmers to keep any one branch from gaining too much power |
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Northwest Territory |
The territory located north of the Ohio river and East of the Mississippi River |
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Antifederalists |
Federalist who supposed ratification |
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Depression |
A period when the economy slowed and unemployment increased |
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Manumission |
The freeing of an individual slave |
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Enlightenment |
A movement in the 1700s that promoted knowledge, reason, and science as means to improve society |
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Each state was divided into what three branches |
Legislative executive and judicial branches |
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The articles of confederation set up a congress to deal with ____ nation concerns |
Limited |
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What word means legislatures dived into two houses |
Bicameral |
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As a result of weakness states often did what? |
Fought amongst themselves
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Why was shays rebellion caused? |
Because of farmers that were angry about their rising taxes and debts |
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What convinced George Washington to attend the constitutional convention of Philadelphia? |
Shays rebellion |
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The new jersey plan provided what? |
Power to levy taxes, regulate trade, and elect a weak executive branch. |
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Antifederalists opposed ratification because they did not want to lose what? |
Individual freedom |
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Federalism |
The sharing of power between federal and state government |
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Americans wanted Spain to grant them what |
The right to transport good on the Mississippi River |
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Who was the last state to ratify the constitution? |
Rhode Island |
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A major reason for the resistance of ratification was? |
The states wanted a Bill of Rights |
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Federalists tried to influence delegates at ratifying conventions how? |
By writing the federalists papers |
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Patrick Henry thought if the Constitution was ratified then... |
The government would not be strong enough to keep the country together |
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Patrick Henry was an |
Antifederalist |
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May people who argued for a bill of rights because? |
They feared the power of an anti federalist government |
