Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution
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| John Adam's wife, she appealed to her husband to protect the rights of women. A member of the Daughters of Liberty. | ||
| Led Shays's Rebellion, an uprising of farmers in Massachusetts that shut down the courts so that farmers would not lose their farms for tax debts. (1786) | ||
| First Secretary of the Treasury. Wanted creation of a national bank, assumption of state debts by the federal government, and a tariff system to pay off the national debt. (1789-1795) | ||
| 4th President of the United States and father to the Constitution. | ||
| Inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son. | ||
| A political union of individual states. | ||
| Each branch of government can check and limit each other. | ||
| Government free from external control. | ||
| Government is rules by mob. | ||
| Governmental power is from the people. | ||
| A form of government in which people elect representatives to create and enforce laws. | ||
| Belief that the power of the federal government is limited when regarding the powers of the state. | ||
| Rule by the people. | ||
| An alliance of independent states. | ||
| Society with no government. |