Unit 3 Vocabulary

3. Ordinance-set up a government for the Northwest Territory, guaranteed basic rights to settlers, and outlawed slavery.
8. Ordinance of 1785-set up a system for settling the Northwest Territory, it created the townships that we have today
9. system of government in which citizens choose representatives to govern them
10. - Document that set out the law principles organizations and process.
11. -to approve
14. supporter of a strong federal government
16. Carta-a British document signed in 1215 that contained two basic ideas: monarchs themselves have to obey the laws, and citizens have basic right
17. Jersey Plan-the plan at the Constitutional Convention, favored by smaller states, that called for three branches of government with a single-chamber legislature

1. Plan-proposed by James Madison, it called for a strong national government with representation being based on a states population
2. of Confederation-the first American constitution, created a very loose alliance of the 13 independent states.
4. of power- a principle by which the powers of government are divided among separate branches
5. Compromise-a plan at the Constitutional Convention that settled the differences between large and small states
6. of Rights-list of freedoms that the government promises to protest, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution
7. opponent of a strong federal government
12. Compromise-an agreement at the Constitutional Convention that three fifths of the enslaved residents in any state be counted in its population
13. corpus-the right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
15. -to change