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100
He published the Pennsylvania Gazette and Poor Richard's Almanack.
Who is Ben Franklin?
100
This gives each branch of the government the ability to retrain the powers of the other two branches.
What is the system of checks and balances?
100
The Constitution gives the national government the power to do these three key things.
What is coin money, trade with other nations, & support and raise an army and navy.
100
A weakness of this document is the inability to tax people directly.
What is the Articles of the Confederation?
100
This group of people, though educated, were denied the right to vote until the 1900s.
What are women?
200
He led farmers in a rebellion against the central government.
Who is Daniel Shay?
200
These powers are held jointly be the federal and state governments.
What are the concurrent powers?
200
The Constitution allows this level of government to create marriage laws, provide for public safety, and establish and maintain schools.
What is the state government?
200
This plan shifted power from the stated toward the central government?
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay were all members of this group.
Who are Federalists?
300
He drafted the Virginia Plan.
Who is James Madison?
300
These powers are guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment and are reserved for states.
What are the reserved powers?
300
Most state did this when they ratified their own constitutions.
What is limited the powers of their governors.
300
This granted each state an equal voice in the upper house and representation in the lower house according to population.
What is the Great Compromise?
300
This was started in 1784 in part by the loss of British markets.
What is a depression?
400
He developed the theory of "natural rights."
Who is John Locke?
400
These federal powers are listed in the Constitution.
What are the delegated powers?
400
The Constitution was created as a result of this gathering in 1787.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
400
This compromise counted only a fraction of slaves toward the total population.
What is the Three-Fifths compromise?
500
She argued that men and women have equal intelligence.
Who is Judith Sargent Murray?
500
This prevents any one branch of the federal government from becoming too powerful.
What is the separation of powers?
500
This act determined that western lands would be divided into townships, tracts, and sections to be sold.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
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