Chapter 3: A More Perfect Union

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  1. 3. An English philosopher who believed that all people had natural rights
  2. 4. America's first constitution written in 1777
  3. 7. A Virginian planter known as the "Father of the Constitution"
  4. 8. The first state accepted into the union from the Northwest Territory (1803)
  5. 13. An agreement that stated that each enslaved person was worth three-fifths of a free person for taxation and representation
  6. 19. This British document used John Locke's ideas that all people have natural rights. Americans used this as an example for state constitutions.
  7. 20. Agreement proposed by Roger Sherman that included a bicameral legislature in which one house had proportional representation.
  8. 21. People who opposed the ratification of the Constitution and criticized it for lacking a bill of rights.
  9. 22. The freeing of individual enslaved people.
  10. 24. A period of time when economic activity slows and unemployment increases.
  11. 25. A merchant who headed the department of finance created by Congress
  12. 26. Philosopher of the Enlightenment who wrote "The Spirit of Laws" in 1748 and believed that the powers of government should be separated and balanced.
  13. 28. The lawmaking branch of government (Congress) made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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  1. 1. Wrote the final draft of the Constitution
  2. 2. A movement in the 1700s that promoted knowledge, reason, and science to improve society.
  3. 5. A rebellion in which farmers closed down courts in western Massachusetts and tried to seize arms and ammunition from the federal arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts
  4. 6. Organized the first antislavery society in 1774 in Pennsylvania
  5. 9. An ordinance passed in 1787 that created the Northwest Territory and was a democratic model of expansion
  6. 10. The legislative branch, executive branch, and judicial branch
  7. 11. Lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River
  8. 12. Consisting of two houses
  9. 14. A system in which all three branches of government have roles that check or limit the others to prevent one branch from gaining too much power
  10. 15. The idea that government is operated by the consent of the governed
  11. 16. The sharing of power between the federal and state governments
  12. 17. Former Continental Army captain who led rebellions
  13. 18. Supporters of the new Constitution who feared chaos and disorder without a strong central government.
  14. 23. The basic plan of government the Convention adopted that outlined a two-house legislature, a chief executive chosen by the legislature, a court system, and proportional representation in both houses of the legislature.
  15. 27. Protects citizens' individual freedoms. Based on ideas from the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights.