Chapter 5 Vocab ~ The Articles of Confederation

Question 1

Magna Carta

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A document signed by King John in 1215, made the king subject to law

Question 2

Constitution

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A constitution is a set of basic principles and laws that states the powers and duties of the government

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Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

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This document declared that no person could be forced to attend a particular church or be required to pay for a church with tax money

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Suffrage

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The right to vote

Question 5

Articles of Confederation

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Congress would become the single branch of the national government, but it would have limited powers in order to protect the liberties of the people

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Ratification

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Official approval

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Land Ordinance if 1785

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Set up a system for surveying and dividing western lands

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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The ordinance established the Northwest Territory, which included areas that are now Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin

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Northwest Territory

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included areas that are now Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin

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Tariffs

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Taxes on imports or exports

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Interstate commerce

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Trade between two or more states

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Inflation

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Occurs when there are increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money.

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Depression

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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 veteran that led hundreds of men in a forced shutdown of the Supreme Court in Springfield, Massachusetts

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Shays’s Rebellion

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The uprising of farmers to protest high taxes and heavy debt

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Constitutional Convention

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Held in May 1787 in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall to improve the Articles of Confederation.

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James Madison

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A delegate to the Constitutional Convention and fourth president of the United States

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Virginia Plan

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Edmund Randolph proposed a new federal constitution that would give sovereignty, or supreme power, to the central government

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New Jersey Plan

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Called for a unicameral, or one house, legislature. The plan gave each state an equal number of votes, and thus an equal voice, in the federal government

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Great Compromise

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The agreement to create a two house legislature

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Three-Fifths Compromise

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Under this agreement only three-fifths of a state’s slave population when determining representation

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Popular sovereignty

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The idea that political authority belongs to the people

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Federalism

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The sharing of power between a central government and the states that make up a country

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Legislative branch

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Congress. Congress is responsible for proposing and passing laws

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Executive branch

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Including the president and the departments that help run the government

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Judicial branch

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Made up of all the national courts

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Checks and balances

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Keeps any branch of government from becoming too powerful

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Antifederalists

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People who opposed the constitution

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Federalists

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Supporters of the constitution

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Federalist papers

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These essays supporting the constitution were written anonymously under the name Publius .

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Amendments

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Official changes

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Bill of rights

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10 of the proposed amendments intended to protect citizens’ rights

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George Mason

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American Patriot who soon became an Antifederalist and refused to sign the Constitution