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12 Cards in this Set
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Constitution |
A plan for the government to organize themselves. |
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Bicameral |
Two-house legislatures to divide the power even further. |
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Republic |
A government in which citizens rule through elected representatives. |
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Petition |
apply to congress for statehood. |
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Ordinance |
A law that established a procedure for surveying and selling the western lands north of the Ohio River. |
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Depreciate |
That the money printed from the Revolutionary war had fallen in value. |
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Depression |
A period when economic activity slowed and unemployment increased. |
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Manumission |
the freeing of individual enslaved persons. |
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Compromise |
an agreement between two or more sides in which each side gives up some of what it wants. |
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Shay's Rebellion |
Where people worried that the government could not control unrest and prevent violence. |
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Roger Sherman's Great Compromise |
Sherman proposed a two-house legislature, in the house of representatives the number of seeds in each state would very based on the states population. In the senate each state would have two members. |
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Three Fifths Compromise |
to count each enslaved person as three-fifths of a free person for both taxation and representation. |
