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| 2224134895 | Civic Virtue | the notion that democracy depened on the unselfish commitment of each other to the public good | 0 | |
| 2224154258 | Articles of Confederation | the original constitution; ratified by all states in 1781 | 1 | |
| 2224171458 | Old Northwest | immense part of the public domain recently acquired from the state; this land lays northwest of the ohio river, east of the mississippi river and south of the great lakes | 2 | |
| 2224192205 | Land Ordinance of 1785 | red-letter law that provided that the acerage of the Old Northwest should be sold and that the processed should be used to help pay off the national debt | 3 | |
| 2224200500 | Northwest Ordinance | The ordinance created the Northwest Territory, the first organized territory of the United States, from lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains, between British Canada and the Great Lakes to the north and the Ohio River to the south. The upper Mississippi River formed the Territory's western boundary. | 4 | |
| 2224241514 | Shays Rebellion | An upsrising ,led by Daniel Shay, demanded that Massachusetts issue paper money,lighten taxes, and suspend property take overs | 5 | |
| 2224257799 | Virgina Plan | representation in both house of a bicameral congress abould be based on population | 6 | |
| 2224270414 | New Jersey Plan | provided equal representation in a unicameral congress by states regardless of size and population | 7 | |
| 2224282153 | Great Compromise | was one of the most important compromises reached during the drafting of the United States Constitution in 1787. The delegates were trying to figure out how each state would be represented in Congress. | 8 | |
| 2224287596 | Common Law | provided a flexible guide t obroad rules of procedure, rather than fixed set detailed laws; law that is derived from custom and judicial precedent rather than statutes | 9 | |
| 2224309479 | Civil Law | the system of law concerned with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious affairs. | 10 | |
| 2224317844 | 3/5 Comprimise | 3/5 of an Afirican American counted as a white person; as a comprimise between total representation and none at all, it was decided that a slave might count as three-fifths of a person | 11 | |
| 2224345429 | Anti-Federalists | a diverse coalition of people who opposed ratification of the Constitution | 12 | |
| 2224354789 | Federalists | The supporters of the proposed Constitution their adopted name implied a commitment to a loose, decentralized system of government. | 13 | |
| 2224376585 | the Ferderalist Papers | collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution | 14 | |
| 2224388806 | Daniel Shays | an American soldier, revolutionary, and farmer famous for being one of the leaders of Shays' Rebellion, a populist uprising against controversial debt collection and tax policies in Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787 | 15 | |
| 2224397057 | Patrick Henry | an American attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia in the 1770s. | 16 | |
| 2224400580 | Checks & Balances | if we spend money on bills then it needsto go through governement; counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups. | 17 | |
| 2224413439 | Seperation of Powers | act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies. | 18 | |
| 2224424165 | explain how twin ideas of equlity and liberty are sometimes at odds | their are two types of equality the brit verison which is all about result and then there is american version which is opportunity; liberty is let me do my own thing | 19 | |
| 2228675001 | Cincinnatus | a genral in the first decades of Roman time which George Washington was compared ti | 20 | |
| 2228730646 | identify which religions supported the Patriots & Tories and the states they were dominant in | The patriots were protestants based in the british colonies and the tories were catholic and were from englandAnnaa | 21 | |
| 2261415452 | Annapolis Convention | a meeting of 12 delegates from five states (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia) that called for a constitutional convention. | 22 | |
| 2261420259 | The weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation | Each state only had one vote in Congress, regardless of size. Congress had not have the power to tax. Congress did not have the power to regulate foreign and interstate commerce. There was no executive branch to enforce any acts passed by Congress. There was no national court system. Amendments to the Articles of Confederation required a unanimous vote. Laws required a 9/13 majority to pass in Congress. | 23 | |
| 2261427202 | What caused the depression in 1787? | It was a post war depression after the Revolutionary War and Shays Rebelion | 24 | |
| 2261431976 | Constitutional Convention | Who Came? 73 apponited 18 declined=55 delagets; John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.=founding fathers; | 25 | |
| 2261451126 | Slavery and the Constitution | Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction; but the comprimise during that time was the 3/5 rule | 26 | |
| 2261457279 | 3 major compromises | 1. The Conneticut Compromise: two members in senate and Reps. based on popultaion 2. 3/5 rule: 3/5 of a slave would count as someone in the sate 3.Commerece Compromises: congress can't tax, congress can regualte trade, the president can make treaties but 2/3 of the Sen. have to agree | 27 | |
| 2261465274 | James Madisons defense and ability of a Republican form of government in a large country | Madison changed such views when he himself became a partisan in the 1790s. Believing that Hamilton's financial, economic and diplomatic plans for the young republic were both bad policy and contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution, he organized an opposition in Congress that was called "Mr. Madison's party." This became the basis for the nation's first organized national political party, the Democratic Republicans, led by Madison and Jefferson in opposition to the policies of president John Adams. Their party efforts in the press and through local political clubs helped to bring about Jefferson's defeat of Adams in the presidential election of 1800. | 28 |
