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| Constitutional Convention |
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| The meeting held in Philadelphia to create a new constitution. |
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| A leading convention delegate who was from Virginia. |
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| 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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| A plan creating a unicameral, or one-house, legislature. |
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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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| It counted slaves as three-fifths of a person when deciding representation. |
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| The idea that political power belongs to the people. |
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| The sharing of power between a central government and the states. |
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| A congress of two houses that proposes and passes laws |
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| The president and the departments that help run the government |
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| A system of all the national courts. |
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| A system that keeps any branch of government from becoming too powerful. |
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| People who opposed the constitution |
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| People who supported the constitution |
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| Anonymous Essays supporting the constitution |
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| Official changes to a document |
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| Constitutional amendments that protect the rights of citizens |
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| An English document that limited the power of the monarch |
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| A set of basic principals and laws that states the powers and duties of the government |
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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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| Articles of Confederation |
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| The first national constitution, which made a new confederation congress the national government |
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| Official approval of the articles by the states |
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| A law that set up a system for surveying and dividing the Northwest territory |
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| Northwest Ordiance of 1787 |
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| A law that established the Northwest Territory and formed a political system for the region |
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| A territory including Illinois,Indiana,Michigan,Ohio,and Wisconson |
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| Taxes on imports or exports |
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| Trade between two or more states |
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| A period of low economic activity combined with a rise in unemployment |
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| A poor farmer and Revolutionary War vetern |
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| 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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