| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Articles of Confederation | The document that representatives wanted to fix at the Constitutional Convention. |
| Congress | The name of the two-house legislative branch set forth in the Great Compromise |
| Fugitive | The ________________ Slave Compromise is one compromise made by the Constitutinal Convention that allowed slaveholders to hunt down escapee slaves and return them to slavery. |
| Slave | The ______________ Trade Compromise is a compromise made by the Constitutional Convention that stated a law ending the slave trade could not be passed by Congress for 20 years. |
| The Bill of Rights | The first ten amendments added to the Constitution to guarantee certain rights the government could not take away. |
| The Oregon Trail | This was the trail followed by thousands of people moving west. It was the main route west until the railroads were built. |
| Abigail Adams | A letter writer and a supporter of legal rights for women. |
| Democratic | The political party Thomas Jefferson belong to. |
| Lewis and Clark | The last names of the two men that lead a team of explorers named the Corps of Discovery and mapped new territory. |
| Mormons | A religious group that fled west to avoid persecution for their religous beliefs. |
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