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23 Cards in this Set
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Determined how slaves would be counted in regards to State population |
3/5ths Compromise |
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People who opposed the Constitution |
Anti-Federalists |
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People who supported the Constitution |
Federalists |
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Result of New Jersey and Virginia Plans |
The Great Compromise |
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Plan calling for representation to be based on State population |
Virginia Plan |
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Plan calling for equal representation regardless of State size |
New Jersey Plan |
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Author of the Great Compromise |
Roger Sherman |
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Depreciate |
to fall in value |
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Englishman who believed that government was a contract between the people and the ruler |
John Locke |
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Bicameral |
Having two separate law-making chambers |
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Freeing of enslaved people |
Manumission |
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Purpose of the first three articles of the Constitution |
to describe the structure of the Federal Government |
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The only people allowed in the Constitutional Convention |
Men |
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Major source of labor in the South |
Slavery |
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Voting requirements after the American Revolution |
21 years old;white;male |
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What John Locke believed in |
The natural rights of people (life,liberty,pursuit of happiness) |
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Former soldier and farmer Rebellion |
Shay's Rebellion |
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Document describing a "Firm league of Friendship" |
The Articles of Confederation |
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Enlightenment |
Period of time that influenced the architects of the Constitution |
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The Constitution |
Serves as the final authority according to the Federal Government |
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George Washington |
presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention |
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13 |
Number of States that had to approve the Articles of Confederation |
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Law that helped stop the spread of slavery to the West |
The Northwest Ordinance |
