How did the new republic fare under the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution?
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| 509493424 | Republicanism | legitimate political authority derives from the people, political rights limited to those who owned property | 1 | |
| 509493425 | suffrage | the right to vote in a political election | 2 | |
| 509493426 | patriarchal | men head of society - politics and public life | 3 | |
| 509493427 | Phillis Wheatley | acclaimed African American poet, first poems published in 1773 | 4 | |
| 509493428 | Religious pluralism | lacking religious uniformity; checked legislative efforts to impose religious taxes or designate any denomination as the established church in state constitutions after the revolution | 5 | |
| 509493429 | Articles of Confederation | written document setting up the loose confederation of states that comprised the first national government of the United States | 6 | |
| 509493430 | Creditor | owed money | 7 | |
| 509493431 | Debtor | owe money | 8 | |
| 509493432 | "legislative despotism" | abuse of power by tyrannical law makers | 9 | |
| 509493433 | fiscal crisis | creditors and debtors at odds involving the state legislatures | 10 | |
| 509493434 | nationalists | group of leaders in the 1780s who spearheaded the drive to replace the Articles of Confederation with a stronger central government | 11 | |
| 509493435 | Daniel Shays | Revolutionary War veteran who led Shay's Rebellion in Massachusetts | 12 | |
| 509493436 | Shays' Rebellion | an armed movement of debt-ridden farmers in western Massachusetts in the winter of 1786-7. The rebellion created a crisis atmosphere | 13 | |
| 509493438 | Land Ordinance (1785) | act passed by Congress under the Articles of Confederation that created the grid system of surveys by which all subsequent public land was made available for sale | 14 | |
| 509493439 | Northwest Ordinance (1787) | legislation that prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territories and provided the model for the incorporation of future territories into the union as coequal states | 15 | |
| 509493440 | Southwest Ordinance (1790) | legislation passed by Congress that set up a government with no prohibition on slavery in U.S. territory south of the Ohio River | 16 | |
| 509493441 | right of deposit | right to transfer cargoes to ocean-going vessels (United States needed this in New Orleans from Mississippi River) | 17 | |
| 509493442 | Annapolis Convention | conference of state delegates at Annapolis, Maryland, that issued a call in September 1786 for a convention to meet at Philadelphia to consider fundamental changes | 18 | |
| 509493443 | Constitutional Convention | convention that met in Philadelphia in 1787 and drafted the Constitution of the United States | 19 | |
| 509493444 | Constitution of the U.S. | the written document providing for a new cenral government of the United States | 20 | |
| 509493445 | Virginia Plan | proposal calling for a national legislature in which the states would be represented according to population | 21 | |
| 509493446 | New Jersey Plan | proposal of the New Jersey delegation for a strengthened national government in which all states would have an equal representation in a unicameral legislature | 22 | |
| 509493447 | "Great Compromise" | plan proposed at the 1787 Constitutional Convention for creating a national bicameral legislature in which all states would be equally represented in the Senate and proportionally represented in the House | 23 | |
| 509493448 | "ambition must be made to counter ambition" James Madison | accepted politics would be self-serving and set up system of checks and balances to balance each other | 24 | |
| 509493449 | Slavery | left in between national and state sovereignty in the Constitution, so not solved until Civil War | 25 | |
| 509493450 | executive power | power of the President | 26 | |
| 509493451 | judicial review | a power implied in the Constitution that gives federal courts the right to review and determine the constitutionality of acts passed by Congress and state legislature | 27 | |
| 509493452 | federalism | the sharing of powers between the national government and the states | 28 | |
| 509493453 | ratification of Constitution | required 9 states to agree to the Constitution for it to become law | 29 | |
| 509493454 | Federalists | a supporter of the Constitution who favored its ratification | 30 | |
| 509493455 | Antifederalists | opponents of the Constitution in the debate over its ratification | 31 | |
| 527028868 | popular sovereignty | the government receives its power from the people and can govern only with their assent | 32 | |
| 527028869 | limited government | government has only as much authority as the people give it | 33 | |
| 527028870 | separation of powers | government power is divided between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches to prevent the misuse of power | 34 | |
| 527028871 | checks and balances | each of the three branches of government has the ability to restrain the other two | 35 | |
| 527028872 | judicial review | federal courts have the power to review acts of the federal government and to cancel any acts that are unconstitutional | 36 | |
| 527028873 | federalism | power is divided between a central government and smaller governments; central government is powerful enough to be effective, but not too powerful to threaten the rights of states and individuals | 37 |
