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- 3. Great Compromise, the proposition of a two house legislature. In the lower house the number of seats for each state would be decided by the state’s population. The upper house would be decided by the lower house.
- 4. the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
- 6. and balances, a system that prevents any one branch from gaining too much power.
- 7. Madison, a Virginia planter who called for a convention.
- 9. of Confederation, the first Constitution of the United States.
- 10. Morris, a merchant who was in charge of the department of finance.
- 13. Plan, a plan for a strong national government made by Edmund Randolph.
- 14. Bill of Rights, one of the documents that helped establish the idea that people have rights and that the power of the government should be limited.
- 16. Locke, an English philosopher who believed that all people have natural rights.
- 18. a period when economic activity slowed and unemployment increased.
- 20. Sovereignty, government by consent of the governed and equal justice under law.
- 21. federalists, people who criticized the Constitution because it lacked a bill of rights to protect individual freedoms.
- 22. Shays, a former Continental Army captain.
- 23. a french writer who declared that the powers of government should be separated and balanced.
- 24. fifths compromise, a decision to count each enslaved person as three-fifths of a free person for both taxation and representation.
- 27. Ordinance, it created a single Northwest Territory out of the lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River.
- 28. the sharing of power between the federal and state governments.
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- 1. supporters of the Constitution.
- 2. people from Pennsylvania who made the first anti-slavery society.
- 5. Branch, the lawmaking branch of the government.
- 8. Territory, a single territory out of the lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River.
- 11. of Government, Legislative, Judicial, and Executive
- 12. of Rights, most state constitutions included a ___________, guaranteeing certain freedoms and legal protections to the state’s citizens.
- 15. Morris, a powerful speaker and writer, wrote the final draft of the Constitution.
- 17. a movement of the 1700’s that promoted knowledge, reason, and science as the means to improve society.
- 19. the freeing of individual enslaved persons.
- 25. Rebellion, a riot of angry farmers led by Daniel Shays.
- 26. a legislature that is divided into two parts or houses.