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- 4. This means to be divided into two parts (like our legislative branch), what is this called?
- 8. This is the branch for our government that makes the laws; is made of the Senate and the House of Representative. Which branch is this?
- 10. Which group were members of Protestant, persecuted in England, colonized Pennsylvania. Believed that slaves should be free. Also supported women’s equal rights?
- 13. This is a period of time when economic activity is slow and unemployment rates are high. What are these times called?
- 14. This is the freeing of individual slaves.
- 16. This was created because of the Northwest Ordinance, land north of the Ohio River. It became the states: Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois, what is it?
- 21. This was the first state to form in the Northwest Territory in 1803, which state is it?
- 22. These people opposed the ratification of the constitution. They did not support it because it did not include a bill of rights, who are they?
- 24. and Federalism What does it mean to share power between federal and state governments. Who were supporters of the Constitution?
- 25. There are 3 branches in this, what is this called? There is the legislative that makes the laws, Judicial interprets the laws in real cases, and the Executive branch carries out the laws. The different branches provide checks and balances for each other.
- 26. Who was the Virginia planter and the “father” of the Constitution? He became one of the leaders for the new government and became the 4th president, defending the principle of balance which was in the Constitution.
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- 1. What means that the people allowed for someone to govern them, they gave permission for the leaders?
- 2. This plan was made by James Madison, it provided a strong government because it was divided into 3 branches that each had a job. What is this plan called?
- 3. Who was the delegate to the Constitutional Convention who wrote the final draft of the Constitution?
- 5. A document that gave basic rights to the English people. It influenced the writers of the states constitutions, what is this document called?
- 6. This is the document that protected individual rights, what is this document called?
- 7. Compromise What was the compromise on how to count slaves for representation and taxing? In this compromise every 5 slaves would count as 3 free people.
- 9. Framers had this system made to keep everyone in check, and so no branch could take over and gain too much power, what was this?
- 11. What was the first constitution of the US that made the states independent and had power over themselves, it made the states be self-governed?
- 12. Who was Continental Army captain who led the Shays’s rebellion? This man led a revolt with other angry farmers against the system where their lands were being taken because of taxes and debt.
- 15. This made a democratic influence for national expansion. It set up the northwest territory, what is it?
- 17. The compromise where there was a house of representatives with numbers of seats varying by state population and a Senate with two senators for every state. What is this compromise called?
- 18. Who was the French thinker in the Enlightenment who wrote, “Spirit of Laws”, which argued that the government should be balanced, separate parts?
- 19. Who was the english philosopher of the Enlightenment who believed everyone had natural rights which included life, liberty and property? The architects of the Constitution were influenced by him.
- 20. What was the movement in the 1700’s that lifted knowledge, reason and science to improve society?
- 23. Who was the rich merchant from Philadelphia and gave a lot of money to help get the government out of debt?