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Chapter 8
The American Promise 5th Edition. Professor: Jones-Reed : Keywords
Term | Definition |
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Elizabeth Freeman | First slave to win freedom in Massachusetts in 1781, basing her case on the constitution |
Articles of Confederation | Plan devised by continental congress in November 1777 |
Bill of Rights | List of individual rights that the government can abridge, 1st ten amendments to the constitution |
Gradual Emancipation | Process that ended slavery in a series of steps |
The Federalist Papers | Series of 85 essays on political philosophy, set out failures of the Articles of Confederation |
Northwest Ordinance | Land act 1787, specified the mechanism |
Virginia Plan | New government, a repudiation of the principle of a confederation of states |
James Madison | Son of a wealthy planter, guided the draft of the United States Constitution 1787 |
Republicanism | Government needs to work with the people |
Three-Fifths Compromise | Specifies if salves counted as property or as people |
Alexander Hamilton | New York delegate |
Shay's Rebellion | Western Massachusetts protest state government building |
Northwest Territory | Area north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi |
Anti-Federalist | Opponents that feared the constitution |
The Great Compromise | Bicameral legislature |