a document signed by King John in 1215, made the king subject to law
What is Magna Carta?
100
taxes on import and exports
What is tariffs?
100
a meeting held in Philadelphia at which delegates from the states wrote the Constitution
What is Constitutional Convention?
100
people who opposed the Constitution
What is Anti-Federalists?
200
passed in 1689, declared the supremacy of Parliament
What is English Bill of Rights?
200
trade between two or more states
What is interstate commerce?
200
plan for government proposed at the Constitutional Convention in which the national government would have supreme power and a legislate branch would have two houses with representation determined by state population
What is Virginia Plan?
200
a delegate that became a Anti-Federlists
Who is George Mason?
300
a philosophical movement that emphasized the use of reason to examine old ideas and tradition
What is Enlightenment?
300
increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money
What is inflation?
300
called unicameral or one house legislature. The plan gave each state an equal number of votes, thus an equal voice, in the federal government
What is New Jersey Plan?
300
supporters to the Constitution
What is federalists?
400
a philosopher who believed that a social contract existed between political rulers and the people they ruled
John Locke
400
a period of low economic activity combined with a rise in unemployment
What is depression?
400
agreement to create two house legislature
What is Great Compromise?
400
a series of essay that defended and explained the Constitution and tried to reassure Americans that the states would not e overpowered by the proposed national government
What is Federalists Papers?
500
set of basic principles and laws that states the powers and duties of the government
What is constitution?
500
uprising of farmers to protest high taxes and heavy debt
What is Shay's Rebellion?
500
is the sharing of power between a central government and the states that make up a country
What is federalism?
500
10 of the proposed amendments intended to protect citizens' rights