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An official approval
What is ratification mean
100
this document declared that no person could be forced to attend a particular church or be required to pay for a church with tax money
What was the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom?
100
The Magna Carta helped the representatives have a strong voice in England's government.
The Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights helped create what?
100
this was an agreement which said that they would create a two-house legislature
What was the Great Compromise?
100
Congress passed this, it set up a system for dividing and surveying western lands.
What was The Land Ordinance of 1785
200
A low period of low economic activity combined with a rise in unemployment
What is depression
200
the uprising of farmers to protest high taxes and heavy debt became known as Shay’s rebellion.
What was Shays rebellion
200
This was the new national constitution. Its weakness was in the fact that the states can refuse requests when the congress asked for soldiers or money.
Describe the Articles of Confederation? Where were its weaknesses?
200
This was a document that declared the supremacy of parliament.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
Edmund Randolph of Virginia presented the Virginia plan. He proposed a new federal constitution that would give sovereignty, or supreme power, to the central government
What was the Virginia Plan
300
the sharing of power between a central government and the states that make up a country.
What is federalism
300
this was the idea that political authority belongs to the people.
What is popular sovereignty
300
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
Where was the northwest territory located
300
This document declared the supremacy of Parliament. It kept the king or queen from passing new taxes or changing laws without Parliaments consent.
What was the English Bill of Rights
300
2 house legislature
What is a bicameral
400
when government keeps on making money, decreasing the value of it, causing prices to rise.
What is inflation
400
To form a political system for the region, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. The ordinance established the Northwest Territory, which included areas that are now in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
What was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
400
This was a document that made the king subject to law.
What was the Magna Carta
400
This was a philosophical movement that emphasized the use of reason to examine old ideas and traditions.
What was the Enlightenment
400
one-house legislature
What is a unicameral
500
This is the trade between two or more states.
What is interstate commerce
500
new jersey delegate William Paterson presented the small-state or New Jersey plan, which called for a unicameral, or one-house, legislature. The plan gave each state an equal number of votes, thus an equal voice, in the federal government. The plan gave the federal government the power to tax citizens in all states, and it allowed the government to regulate commerce.
What was the New Jersey plan
500
This was an agreement the said only three-fifths of a state's slave population would count when determining representation.
What was the Three-Fifths compromise?
500
A Constitution is a set of basic principals that states the powers and duties of the government.
What is a constitution
500
people who opposed the Constitution
What is an anti federalist
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