Kennedy/Cohen/Bailey; The American Pageant: key tems, people and chronology
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| 208434098 | 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. Named for George Washington, whose nickname was Cincinnatus, although Washington himself had no involvement in the society. | |
| 208434099 | Disestablished | to separate an official state church from its connection with the government. Following the Revolution, all states ____ the Anglican Church, though some New England states maintained established Congregational Churches well into the 19th century | |
| 208434100 | Virginia Statue for Religions Freedom | promoted the separation of the church and state in Virginia. Thomas Jefferson supported for freedom of religion. By 1833 all the other states had separate churches outside of the government. | |
| 208434101 | Civic Virtue | the willingness to work for the good of the nation or community even at great sacrifice. | |
| 208434102 | Articles of Confederation | a written agreement ratified in 1781 by the thirteen original states it provided a legal symbol of their union by gave the central government no coercive power over the states or their citizens | |
| 208434103 | Old Northwest | Region north and west of the Ohio River, included Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, MIchigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota | |
| 208434104 | Land Ordinance | Authorized surveys and the division of public lands in the western part of the country. Specified sizes of lots and acreages. 1785 | |
| 208434105 | 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 | |
| 208434106 | Shay's Rebellion | conflict in Massachusetts caused many to criticize the Articles of Confederation and admit the weak central government was not working; uprising led by Daniel Shays in an effort to prevent courts from foreclosing on the farms of those who could not pay the taxes | |
| 208434107 | Virginia Plan | Virginia delegate James Madison's plan of government, in which states got a number of representatives in Congress based on their population | |
| 208434108 | New Jersey Plan | Opposite of the Virginia Plan, it proposed a single-chamber congress in which each state had one vote. This created a conflict with representation between bigger states, who wanted control befitting their population, and smaller states, who didn't want to be bullied by larger states. | |
| 208434109 | Great Compromise | Compromise made by Constitutional Convention in which states would have equal representation in one house of the legislature and representation based on population in the other house | |
| 208434110 | Common Law | (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions | |
| 208434111 | Civil Law | the legal code of ancient Rome codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law | |
| 208434112 | Three-fifths compromise | the agreement by which the number of each state's representatives in Congress would be based on a count of all the free people plus three-fifths of the slaves | |
| 208434113 | Antifederalists | opponents of a strong central government who campaigned against the ratification of the Constitution in favor of a confederation of independant states | |
| 208434114 | Federalists | supporters of the stronger central govt. who advocated the ratification of the new constitution | |
| 208434115 | The Federalist | series of essays promoting ratification of the Constitution, published anonymously by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison in 1787 and 1788 | |
| 208434116 | Lord Sheffield | Wrote a popular pamphlet in England that said Britain would win back America's trade and that commerce would naturally follow old channels. | |
| 208434117 | Daniel Shays | a leader in a rebellion against the state of Massachusetts due to the amount of discontent of farmers that lost their land due to mortgage foreclosures and tax delinquencies during the war while they were off fighting. The rebellion, though put down by the state militia, signaled the need for a stronger central government. | |
| 208434118 | Patrick Henry | a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799 | |
| 208434119 | First Continental Congress calls for abolition of slave trade | 1774 | |
| 208434120 | Philadelphia Quackers found worlds first antislavery society | 1775 | |
| 208434121 | New Jersey constitution temporarily gives women the vote | 1776 | |
| 208434122 | Articles of confederation adopted by second Continental Congress | 1777 | |
| 208434123 | Massachusetts adopts first constitution; drafted in convention and ratified by popular vote | 1778 | |
| 208434124 | Articles of Confederation put into effect | 1780 | |
| 208434125 | Military officers form society of the Cincinnaty | 1783 | |
| 208434126 | Land Ordinance of ____ | 1785 | |
| 208434127 | Virginia statue for Religious Freedoms / Shay's Rebellion / Meeting o 5 states to discuss revision of the articles of Confederation | 1786 | |
| 208434128 | Northwest Ordinance / Comstitutional Conventon in Philadelphia | 1787 | |
| 208434129 | Ratification by nine states guarantees a new government under the Constitution | 1788 |
