| Term | Definition |
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| a fight over slavery might destry national unity | The founding fathers failed to eliminate slavery because |
| economic democracy preceded political democracy in the United States | it was highly significant to the course of the future events that |
| probably worse than before war | The economic status of the average American at the end of the Revolutionary War was |
| excellent political leadership | Immediately after the Revolution, the new American nation's greatest strength lay in its |
| was little more than a conference of ambassadors with very limited power | The Second Continental Congress of Revolutionary days |
| all states claiming western lands surrendered them to the national government | The Articles of Confederation were finally approved when |
| established a procedure for governing the Old Northwest territory | The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
| prohibited slavery in the Old Northwest | One of the most farsighted provsisons of the Northwest Ordiance of 1787 |
| Prohibiting Slavery | The land Ordinance of 1785 provided for all of the following except |
| prevented America from exercising effective control over about half of its total territory | After the Revolutionary War, both Britain and Spain |
| foreclosures on the morgages of backcountry farmers | Shay's Rellion was provoked by |
| a stronger central government | Shay's Rebellion convinced many Americans of the need for |
| reconcile state's rights with strong national government | The debate between the supporters and critics of the Articles of Confederation |
| control of commerce | The issue that finally touched off the movement toward the Constitutional Convention was |
| revise the Articles of Confederation | The constitutional convention was called to |
| Nationalists | most of the delegates at teh Constitutioanl Convention could best be labeled |
| to increase individual freedom | Motives of the delegates to the1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia include all of theexcept |
| based representation in the House and Senate on population | The "large-state" plan put forward in the Constituional convention |
| apportioning congressional represention | The Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention worked out an acceptable scheme for |
| "three-fifths" compromise | The Constitutional Convention addressed the North-South controversy over slavery through the |
| manhood-suffrage democracy | By their actions, the delegates to the Constitutioanl Convention manifested their common beliefs |
| House of Representative | The one branch of the government elected directly by the people is the |
| The consent of the governed | The new Constitution established the idea that the only legitimate government was one based on |
| Supporters of a strong central authority | The Antifederalist camp included all of the following groups except |
| Absence of a bill of rights | Probably the most alarming characteristic of the new constitution to those who opposed it was the |
| The Confederation Congress was not allowed to regulate commerce | What caused resulted in the effect shown in the diagram |
| Circumstance alone | According to this quote, Franklin believed that if the Constitutional Convention failed, future governments would be determined by |
| through legal means | How did Henry say he would remove the weakness of the Constitution |
| Roger Sherman | Voiced the Connecticut Compromised |
| James Madison | kept a record of the Convention debates |
| Edmund Randolph | governor of Virginia who presented the Virgina Plan |
| James Madison | Main author of the Virgina Plan |
| William Paterson | Proposed the New Jersey Plan |
| Alexander Hamilton | Delayed the final vote in New york until news arrived that New Hampshire and Virgina had both ratified |
| Thomas Jefferson | Unable to attend the Constitutional Convention becuse he was serving as American minister to France |
| John Locke | In his Two Treaties on Government, he wrote, "the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom." |
| Magna Carta | In tehis charter of liberty, it read "no free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, except by the legal judgement of his peers or by the law fo the land." |
| Machiavelli | Doubting "civic virtue" as a check of power, he believed that effective ruler must learn how to harness greed and ambition for hte benefit of the state, when he wrote "Upon this questions arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wihs be both, but, because it is difficult ot unite them in one perosn, is much safer to be feared than loved, when of the tow, either must be dispensed with." |
| Montesquieu | "when the legistlative and executive powers are united in teh same perosn, or in the same body of magistrates, ther cna be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyranncial laws, to execute them in a tyranniccla manner." |
| John Woolman | On Slavery he wrote, "These are people who have made no agreement to serve us, and who have not forfited their libery and we know of. These are the sous for whom Christ died, and for our conduct towards them we must answer before Him who is no respecter of person |
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