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Creating the Constitution
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8th Grade
03/05/2013

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Constitutional Convention
Definition
The meeting held in Philadelphia to create a new constitution.
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James Madison
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A leading convention delegate who was from Virginia.
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Virginia Plan

 

Definition
A plan giving supreme power to the central government and creating a bicameral legislature made of two groups, or houses, of representatives.
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New Jersey Plan
Definition
A plan creating a unicameral, or one-house, legislature.
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Great Compromise
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It gave  each state vote in the upper house of the legislature and a number of representatives based on its population in the lower house.
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Three -Fiths Compromise
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It counted slaves as three-fifths of a person when deciding representation.
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Popular Sovereignty
Definition
The idea that political power belongs to the people.
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Federalsim
Definition
The sharing of power between a central government and the states.
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Legislative Branch
Definition
A congress of two houses that proposes and passes laws
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Executive Branch
Definition
The president and the departments that help run the government
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Judical Branch
Definition
A system of all the national courts.
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Checks and Balances
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A system that keeps any branch of government from becoming too powerful.
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Antifederalists
Definition
People who opposed the constitution
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Federalists
Definition
People who supported the constitution
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Federalists Papers
Definition
Anonymous Essays supporting the constitution
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Amendments
Definition
Official changes to a document
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Bill of Rights
Definition
Constitutional amendments that protect the rights of citizens
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Magna Carta
Definition
An English document that limited the power of the monarch
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Constitution
Definition
A set of basic principals and laws that states the powers and duties of the government
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English Bill of Rights
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The bill declared the power of parliment and kept the monarch from passing new taxes or changing laws without parliment's approval
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Virginia Statue for Religous freedom
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A law that included Thomas Jefferson's ideas granting religous freedom
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Suffrage
Definition
Voting rights
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Articles of Confederation
Definition
The first national constitution, which made a new  confederation congress the national government
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Ratification
Definition
Official approval of the articles by the states
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Land ordiance of 1785
Definition
A law that set up a system for surveying and dividing the Northwest territory
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Northwest Ordiance of 1787
Definition
A law that established the Northwest Territory and formed a political system for the region
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Northwest Territory
Definition
A territory including Illinois,Indiana,Michigan,Ohio,and Wisconson
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Tarrifs
Definition
Taxes on imports or exports
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Interstate Commerce
Definition
Trade between two or more states
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Depression
Definition
A period of low economic activity combined with a rise in unemployment
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Daniel Shays
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A poor farmer and Revolutionary War vetern
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Shays' Rebellion
Definition
An uprising in which Daniel Shays led hundreds of men in a forced shut down of the Supreme court in Springfield, Massachusetts
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