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36 Cards in this Set
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Articles of Condeferation |
America's first constitution |
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Northwest Ordinance |
territory of 60,000 can be admitted as a state |
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Land Ordinance of 1785 |
Northwest divided into towns of 36 square miles for sale to pay off debt |
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Annapolis Convention |
meeting of five states that called for the Constitutional Convention |
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Shays' Rebellion |
frightened many property owners to support the Constitution |
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Virginia Plan |
representation in Congress would be based on population |
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Great Compromise |
representation by state in the Senate and by population in the House |
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Bill of Rights |
first ten amendments to Constitution |
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The Federalist |
essay in favor of the Constitution |
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Common Sense |
Thomas Paine's essay that turned American opinion to independence |
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America's representative in France during the Revolution, played the "natural man", delegate to Constitutional Convention |
Benjamin Franklin |
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Commander-in-chief of American forces during the Revolution, president of the Constitutional Convention |
George Washington |
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Author of the Declaration of Independence |
Thomas Jefferson |
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Father of the Constitution, took notes of the debate at the Constitutional Convention |
James Madison |
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Hero at Ticonderoga and Saratoga, traitor at West Point |
Benedict Arnold |
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American commander of southern army after Camden, lost all the battles, won the campaign |
Nathanael Greene |
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French aristocrat, volunteer American soldier, American hero, gave his own money to the cause |
Lafayette |
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President of the Second Continental Congress, signed the Declaration of Independence in large letters |
John Hancock |
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Led a group of frontiersmen to capture British forts in the west, and 180 miles through waist-deep swamps to recapture Vincennes |
George Rogers Clark |
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British commander in the south after the capture of Charleston, surrendered at Yorktown |
Cornwallis |
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What battle was the turning point of the Revolutionary War? |
Saratoga |
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What were three branches of government set up by the Constitution? |
executive, legislative, judicial |
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How can the president check the power of Congress under the Constitution? |
veto laws |
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How many states had to approve the Constitution before it went into effect? |
nine |
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What was the economic theory used by the British to govern the colonies? |
mercantilism |
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What were three American reactions to the Stamp Act? |
Stamp Act Congress, boycotts, mob action |
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(True or False) Rhode Island was the last of the thirteen states to ratify the Constitution. |
True |
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(True or False) The Articles of Confederation did not allow Congress to raise taxes. |
True |
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(True or False) The Confederation Congress could not declare war. |
False |
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(True or False) The Constitution allowed slaves to count as one-third of a person for taxes and two-thirds for representation. |
False |
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(True or False) The Constitution forbids Congress from ever regulating the slave trade. |
False |
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(True or False) Under the Constitution, Congress can impeach the president for breaking the law. |
True |
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(True or False) The Confederation Congress could regulate commerce between the states. |
False |
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(True or False) Inflation helps debtors. |
True |
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(True or False) Monmouth Courthouse was the last major battle in the north during the Revolutionary War. |
True |
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(True or False) The Northwest Ordinance was passed by the Confederation Congress. |
True |
