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Chapter 5 US History

Teacher: Mr. Black
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The ______________ disliked the lack of a bill of rights.
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In 1789, the new Congress convened in ______________.
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The __________ argued that a strong central government could overcome the difficulties facing the new nation.
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The new ______, or national, government included no executive branch.
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Group of people chosen from each state, they indirectly elects the President.
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A series of 85 essays written by Madison, Hamilton, and John Jay.
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In 1777, the Continental Congress drafted the _______ , the new constitution for the the union of the states.
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The plan proposed creating a government that divided power among the legislature, executive, and judicial branches.
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Led by Roger Sherman, the delegates worked out a compromise between the Virginia and the the New Jersey plans.
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Counted each slave as three fifths of a person to be added to a state's free population in allocating representatives to the House of Representatives and electoral college votes.
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The delegates ruled that nine states had to _________ the new Constitution in specially elected conventions.
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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 provided a government for the western territory, as well as a process for _____________.
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In 1786, the Massachussetts army suppressed an uprising by farmers known as ______________.
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The delegates supported a system known as _____________, which divided government power between the national and state governments.
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The first ten amendments to the Constitution that provided basic rights.
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The territory north of the Ohio River and west of Pennsylvania to the Mississippi River.
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A single house elected by the people.
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Governments in which officials are representatives elected by the people.
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In the Land Ordinance of 1785, the Congress designed a system for distributing the _____________.
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The powers to make, implement, and enforce the laws were placed with the __________.