Movers and Shakers
Massachusetts farmer who led the uprising of farmers to protest high taxes and heavy debt.
Who was Daniel Shays?
Following the American Revolution, the British forced America to pay high taxes on imports or exports, also known as this.
What are tariffs?
This word refers to official approval by the states
What is ratification or ratify?
This document provided a very basic framework for a national government, strictly limiting the powers of the national government and giving most rights to states.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
What was the Land Ordinance of 1785?
Virginia's delegate to the Constitutional Convention, known as the "Father of the Constitution."
Who is James Madison?
In 1784, the Spanish shut down this area and prevented U.S. shipping by western farmers and merchants.
What is the Mississippi River?
Voting rights is also referred to as this
What is suffrage?
This document established three branches of government in order to balance power.
What was the Constitution?
This law established the Northwest Territory and formed a political system for the region.
This patriot chose NOT to attend the Constitutional Convention because he did not believe in a stronger central government.
Who was Patrick Henry?
The Confederation Congress had no power to regulate trade between two or more states, also known as this.
What is interstate commerce?
An English document, signed by King John in 1215, that limited the power of the monarch. This document was used by John Locke when writing about the government's duty to guard people's rights.
What was Magna Carta?
This document required one branch of government and had no national judicial system, leaving that to the states.
What was the Articles of Confederation?
This law included Thomas Jefferson's ideas granting religious freedoms.
What was the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom?
This delegate objected to the Virginia Plan and wrote the New Jersey Plan, calling for equal numbers of representatives from each state, regardless of size and population.
Who was William Patterson?
Massachusetts collected taxes on land to pay its war debts, which hurt farmers and led to this uprising.
What was Shay's Rebellion?
What is inflation?
This document had a firm system of checks and balances, clearly defining the role of each branch of government.
What is the Constitution?
The Continental Congress named a "Committee of Thirteen" (one representative from each colony) who drafted this document giving limited powers to a government to guard people's freedom in the new country of America.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
This delegate crafted "The Great Compromise" pulling together both the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan.
Who was Roger Sherman?
A period of low economic activity combined with a rise in unemployment
What is a depression?
This document has a Bill of Rights and a total of 27 amendments.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
These people opposed ratification of the Constitution because they believed it gave too much power to the national government.
What are Anti-Federalist?