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Social Studies Final 7 Flashcards

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Articles of confederation

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November 1777

The first constitution provided for the new central government

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Shay’s rebellion

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When the farmers rebelled because of the government seizing their land.

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James Madison

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A Virginia planter who was active in the American revolution union

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Virginia plan

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A plan which made the house representatives proportional

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New Jersey plan

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A plan to have each state have one vote

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The Great Comprise

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An agreement that each state got a certain amount of votes decided by their population

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Three-Fifths compromise

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Each enslaved person equal three-fifths of a free person

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Baron de Montesquieu

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A philosopher of the enlightenment

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John Locke

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English philosopher that believed that all people have natural rights

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Checks and balances

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Each branch of government had a way to limit the power of one another

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Popular sovereignty

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Political theory that government is subject to the will of the people

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Constitution

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Plan of government

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Republic

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A government in which its rule through elected representatives

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John Adams

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He was sent to London to discuss the British trade policy

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Alexander Hamilton

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A New York lawyer who proposed a convention to discuss trade issues

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The constitutional convention

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A meeting to discuss trade issues with Great Britain

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Amend

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Improve

People wanted to improve the article of confederation

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Federalist vs antifederalist

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People who wanted to change the articles of confederation vs the people who didn’t

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George Washington 1786

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At first was an antifederalist but changed his mind after shays rebellion

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Federalism

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Sharing power between the federal and state government

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Legislative branch

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Law making branch

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Executive branch

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President who carries out the nations laws

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Judicial branch

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Cory systems/ Supreme Court

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Amendment

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Something added to a document (bill of rights)

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European influences

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The United States based their constitution on tactics used by other empires

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Preamble

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The introduction to a formal document especially the constitution

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Precedent

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A tradition

George Washington thought that these would shape the nation

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Bond

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A note issued by the government that promised to pay off a loan with interest
Hamiltons plan to pay back other nations

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Tariff

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A tax on imports

Meant to protect new American industries

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Northwest ordinance

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Passed in 1787

Law that Created a single northwest territory north of the Ohio river

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John Jay

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Chief Justice of the Supreme Court elected by George Washington

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Neutrality

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Not taking sides

the war between France and Britain

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Impressment

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To force people who are not apart of your country to serve in your navy
Britain impressed American ships.

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Whiskey Rebellion

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A tax was put on whiskey and western Pennsylvania was holding a resistance on the tax

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Alien and Sedition Acts

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It was a law allowing the government to imprison false immigrants
France was sending people into the states to spy so

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Sedition

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Activities aimed at weakening the established government.

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Cabinet

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The three departments heads and the attorney general.
State department 
Treasury department 
War department 
Attorney general
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Thomas Jefferson

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Head of the state department and he handled affairs with other nations

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Alexander Hamilton

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Head of the department of treasury he handled financial matters

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National debt

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The amount of money owned by the government

At time was very high

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Bill of rights

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December 1791

First ten amendments in the constitution that limits the power of the government

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Unconstitutional

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Something that goes against the constitution.

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Hamilton’s plan

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Created by Alexander Hamilton he created to fix the national debt.
The plan was to borrow money from other states’ industrial development and their commercial activities

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Aliens

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Immigrants living in the country that were not citizens

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States’ Rights

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The government can only follow the powers they were granted in the constitution

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XYZ Affair

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Secret agents sent to France to try to get help from the French against the British

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Federalist vs the republicans

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People who wanted the national bank and Hamilton’s plan vs the people who didn’t

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Washington D.C Location

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They moved it to Philadelphia temporality

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Washington’s Farewell

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When Washington denied his second term as president

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John Adams

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Second president of the United States that sealed with the problems of Britain

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Judicial review

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The right of the supreme quart to determine if something isolated the constitution

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Judiciary act of 1801

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The act set up regional courts for the United States

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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At the time France’s leader who wanted to created empires in Europe and in the Americas

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Zebulon Pike

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Lieutenant who led 2 expeditions

He traveled through the upper Mississippi River valley

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Embargo act

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Prohibited trade with other countries

Used to get back at France and Britain but didn’t work

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Nonintercourse Act

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The act only prohibited trade with France and Britain

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War of 1812

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Madison declared war Britain for impressing the American soldiers and ships

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Barbary pirates

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Pirates were based out of North Africa

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War with Tripoli

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Tripoli declared war on America because they didn’t want to pay tribute

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Privateer

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Armed pirate ships

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Treaty of Ghent

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December 1814

A peace agreement between America and Britain

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Fort McHenry

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Kept the British from entering Baltimore through the harbor

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Patent

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Gives the inventor the sole legal right to the invention and profit for a certain period of time

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Capitalism

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The economic system of the United States

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Francis Cabot Lowell

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Improved Slater’s process and created a textile mill

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Census

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The official count of the population

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Turnpike

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Roads with tolls

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Locks

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Separate compartments in which compartments were lowered or raised

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State sovereignty

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The idea that states have the right to governments

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Missouri compromise

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March 1820

Made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state

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