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The new national constitution which made a new Confederation Congress the national government.
what are the Articles of Confederation?
Increased prices combined with the reduced value of money.
What is inflation?
meeting held in Philadelphia to create a new constitution
What is the Constitutional Convention?
People who supported the Constitution.
What is Federalists?
To cancel a law.
What is veto?
Official approval by the states
What is ratification?
A period of low economic activity combined with a rise in unemployment.
What is depression?
A plan creating a unicameral, or one house legislature.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
People who opposed the Constitution.
What is Antifederalists?
The government system that gives certain powers to the federal government.
What is the Federal System?
A set of basic principles and laws that states the powers and duties of the government.
What is a Constitution?
Taxes on imports or exports.
What is tariffs?
Only three-fifths of a state’s slaves were counted when deciding representation in Congress.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Essays supporting the Constitution.
What are Federalist Papers?
Vote to bring charges of serious crimes against a president.
What is impeach?
Territory including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
What is the Northwest Territory?
Trade between two or more states.
What is interstate commerce
The sharing of power between a central government and the states.
What is Federalism?
Constitutional amendments that protect the rights of citizens.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Commands from the president that have the power of law.
What are executive orders?
A law that set up a system for surveying land and dividing the Northwest Territory.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
a 1786 uprising in which Daniel Shays led hundreds of men in a forced shutdown of the Supreme Court in Springfield, Massachusetts
What is Shays’s Rebellion?
A system that keeps any branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
Official changes to a document.
What are amendment?
Orders from the president that grant freedom from punishment.
What are pardons?