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EMS WVStudy Ch8Vocab
EMS WV Studies Chap * Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Articles of Confederation | the United States's first constitution; ratified in 1781; replaced by the U.S. Constitution in 1787 |
| constitution | a document that sets up the framework of a government (or any organization) and determines its powers and limitations |
| unicameral | describes a single-house legislature |
| ambassador | a person sent by one country as a permanent representative to another country |
| tariff | a tax on goods brought into a state from another state or country |
| Land Ordinance of 1785 | a federal law that organized the lands of the Northwest Territory into townships |
| township | a 6-mile-square block of land in the Northwest Territory |
| Northwest Ordinance of 1787 | a federal law that established how new states would come into the Union; also prohibited slavery north of the Ohio River U.S. Constitution the nation's second constitution |
| Virginia Plan | proposed by Edmund Randolph of Virginia at the Constitutional Convention that called for a bicameral federal legislature |
| bicameral | describes a two-house legislature |
| New Jersey Plan | proposed by the smaller states at the Constitutional Convention that essentially kept the national government as it was but added the power to tax and to regulate trade |
| compromise | a way to settle disagreements by which each side gives way a little in its demands |
| ratify | to approve officially |
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