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Vocab
100
A bad government with no national powers.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
An agreement providing that enslaved persons would count as three-fifths of a other persons in determining representation in Congress.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
100
The opening section of the constitution.
What is the Preamble?
100
A government that only does what the people allow it to do.
What is limited government?
100
Regardless or in spite of.
What is the meaning of the word despite?
200
Congress couldn't tax, regulate trade, enforce laws, or pass a law unless 9/13 states vote for it.
What are the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
200
The plan where the larger states would have more votes than smaller states
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
One of the several main parts of the Constitution.
What are the articles?
200
The powers granted directly to the national government by the Constitution.
What are the enumerated powers?
200
An action or a series of actions directed toward a result.
What is the meaning of the word process?
300
A law that set up a government for the Northwest Territory and served as a model for admitting new states to the Union.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
300
An agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation.
What is Great Compromise?
300
Any changes in the Constitution.
What are the amendments?
300
Popular sovereignty, limited government and the rule of law, separation of powers, checks and balances, and federalism.
What is the five principles?
300
Those who opposed ratification of the Constitution.
What are Anti-Federalists?
400
An uprising of Massachusetts farmers who did not want to lose their farms because of debt caused by heavy state taxes after the American Revolution.
What is Shays's Rebellion?
400
The plan that gave the smaller states the same power as the larger states.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
Sets up the Judicial branch of the government and lists the powers of the federal courts and describes the kinds of cases the courts may hear.
What is Article III?
400
The powers that the Constitution does not give to the national government that are kept by the states.
What are the reserved powers?
400
Supporters of the Constitution.
What are Federalists?
500
A law that set up a plan for surveying western lands; this method is still used today.
What is the Ordinance of 1785?
500
A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president.
What is the Electoral College?
500
Describes how the Constitution is to be ratified.
What is Article VII?
500
The powers shared by the state and federal government.
What are the concurrent powers?
500
A form of government in which power is divided between the federal, or national, government and the states.
What is Federalism?
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