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| 973233280 | society of cincinnati | An elite group of Continental Army who formed an exclusive hereditary order. It was ridiculed by most Americans for its lordly pretensions. | |
| 973233281 | disestablished | To separate an official state church from its connection with the government. Following the Revolution, all states disestablished the Anglican Church, though some New England states maintained established Congregational Churches well into the nineteenth century. | |
| 973233282 | Virginia statute for religious freedom | Legislation passed by an alliance of Jefferson and the Baptists that disestablished the Anglican church | |
| 973233283 | civic virtue | notion that democracy depended on unselfish commitment to the public good | |
| 973233284 | Articles of Confederation | A weak constitution that governed America during the Revolutionary War in 1777 by Second Continental Congress | |
| 973233285 | Old Northwest | Region north and west of the Ohio River, included Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, MIchigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota. | |
| 973233286 | Land ordinance of 1785 | A law that divided much of the United States into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers. | |
| 973233287 | Northwest Ordinance | Enacted in 1787, it is considered one of the most significant achievements of the Articles of Confederation. It established a system for setting up governments in the western territories so they could eventually join the Union on an equal footing with the original 13 states | |
| 973233288 | Shay's Rebellion | A 1786-7 rebellion in which ex-Revolutionary War soldiers attempted to prevent foreclosures of farms as a result of high interest rates and taxes | |
| 973233289 | Virginia plan | ... | |
| 973233290 | New Jersey Plan | A framework for the Constitution proposed by a group of small states; its key points were a one-house legislature with one vote for each state, the establishment of the acts of Congress as the | |
| 973233291 | Great Compromise | At the Constitutional Convention, larger states wanted to follow the Virginia Plan, which based each state's representation in Congress on state population. Smaller states wanted to follow the New Jersey Plan, which gave every state the same number of representatives. The convention compromised by creating the House and the Senate, and using both of the two separate plans as the method for electing members of each. | |
| 973233292 | common law | A system of law based on precedent and customs | |
| 973233293 | civil law | A law that governs relationships between individuals and defines their legal rights. | |
| 973233294 | three-fifths compromise | Agreement that each slave counted as three-fifths of a person in determining representation in the House for representation and taxation purposes (negated by the 13th amendment) | |
| 973233295 | antifederalists | Opponents of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government, generally. | |
| 973233296 | federalists | A term used to describe supporters of the Constitution during ratification debates in state legislatures. | |
| 973233297 | The Federalist | This collection of essays by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, explained the importance of a strong central government. It was published to convince New York to ratify the Constitution. |
