Vocabulary Terms for our upcoming test...
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| 106326784 | James Madison | Father of the Constitution | |
| 106326785 | Three-Fifths Compromise | Agreement to count slaves as 60% of a person when it came to representation in Congress | |
| 106326786 | 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 | |
| 106326787 | republic | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | |
| 106326788 | checks and balances | A system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power | |
| 106326789 | legislative branch | the branch of government that makes the laws. | |
| 106326790 | executive branch | the branch of government that carries out laws | |
| 106328044 | judicial branch | The branch of government that interprets laws | |
| 106328045 | Federalists | supporters of the stronger central govt. who advocated the ratification of the new constitution | |
| 106328046 | Antifederalists | opponents of a strong central government who campaigned against the ratification of the Constitution in favor of a confederation of independant states | |
| 106328047 | Bill of Rights | The first ten amendments to the Constitution | |
| 106328048 | 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. | |
| 106328049 | "The Federalist Papers" | Series of newspaper articles written by John Hay, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton which enumerated arguments in favor of the Constitution and refuted the arguments of the anti-federalists | |
| 106328050 | delegated powers | Powers specifically given to the federal government by the US Constitution, for example, the authority to print money. | |
| 106328051 | strict construction | way of interpreting the Constitution that allows the federal government to take only those actions the Constitution specifically says it can take | |
| 106328052 | loose construction | belief that the government can do anything that the constitution does not prohibit | |
| 106328053 | cabinet | a group of advisors to the president | |
| 106328054 | Judiciary Act of 1789 | Congress passed this Act which created the federal-court system. | |
| 106328055 | sectionalism | loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole | |
| 106328056 | nullification | the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress | |
| 106328057 | Tecumseh | a famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement (1768-1813) | |
| 106328058 | Judicial Review | the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws and actions of local, state, or national governments unconstitutional | |
| 106328059 | Aaron Burr | United States politician who served as Vice President under Jefferson | |
| 106328060 | Little Turtle | Chief of the Miami who led a Native American alliance that raided U.S. settlements in the Northwest Territory. He was defeated and forced to sign the Treaty of Greenville. Later, he became an advocate for peace | |
| 106328061 | Treaty of Ghent | treaty that ended the war of 1812 | |
| 106328062 | Andrew Jackson | 7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency | |
| 106328063 | Impressment | British practice of taking American sailors and forcing them into military service |
