Chapter 3 study guide

3. One document that the bill of rights was written after.
5. Every enslaved person was counted as ⅗ of a free person
8. Did not support the constitution. Some thought that the government would abuse the power and take away their rights. They also thought it needed a bill of rights.
10. A period where economic activity slowed, and unemployment increased.
13. A group of people that organized the anti-slavery society in Pennsylvania.
14. Declared that the branches of government should be separate and balanced against each other.
15. An English Philosopher who believed that people have natural rights that can’t be taken away.
16. The lawmaking branch.
18. A document that was the first constitution of the United States of America.
19. A paper that guarantees certain rights and freedoms to the citizens.
20. A Virginia planter.
21. A government with two parts or houses.
22. Government by the consent of the governed.
25. The freeing of enslaved peoples.
26. A movement of the 1700s that promoted knowledge, reason, and science as the means to improve society.

1. It provided a democratic model for national expansion. It said that when a territory had more than 60,000 people in the population, it could apply for statehood.
2. Morris, A powerful speaker and writer, who wrote the final draft of the Constitution.
4. A former Continental Army captain was upset that a person was threatening to take away his farm when congress had not paid him for his work in the army. Therefore, he led a rebellion with other angry farmers to show congress that it was not right for them to ask for money when they had not paid him.
6. Supporters of the constitution, and did not think that it needed the bill of rights as well.
7. The three branches of government had a system of checks and balances to make sure that nobody was abusing the power, and nobody had grown too weak.
9. Largely the work of James Madison, and had 2 houses where each of them had representatives proportional to the population of the state.
11. A Philadelphia Merchant that helped relieve congress from some of their debts.
12. Lands North of the Ohio River and West of the Mississippi River.
17. Included the legislative branch, executive branch, and the judicial branch.
23. In the lower house, the seats for each representative were proportional to the population, and in the upper house, each state got two representatives.
24. The first new state out of the Northwest Territory.