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Chapter5
the constatution and revolutionary war
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History
8th Grade
10/20/2010

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Bicameral
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Consisting of two legislative chambers.
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Edmund Randolf
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an American attorney, the 7th governer of Virginia, the Second Secratary of State, and the 1st United States Attorney General.
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James Madison
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the 4th president of the United States and considered one of the founding fathers.
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Patrick Henry
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"Give me liberty or give me death" speach, an Anti-Federalists,
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Alexander Hamilton
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First United States Secretary of the Treasury, wrote most of the federalist papers, created and dominated the Federalists Party
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Robert Morris
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"Financer of the Revolution",

signed the Declaration of Independence, Constatution, and Articles of Confederation.

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Shays' Rebellion
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An armed uprising in central and western Massachusets; poor famers angered by crushing debt and taxes.
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New Jersey Plan
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two houses of congress acording to population.
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Coneticut Compromise
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an agreement between large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.
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