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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why did the general assembly incorporate Charlestown? (changing from Charles town to Charlestown) | to deal with the disorder in the state after the revolution |
| When was Charlestown created? | 1783 |
| What city was created on the Richland Plantation– the home of Thomas Taylor | Columbia |
| When and why was Columbia created? | 1786 as a concession to the upcountry |
| son of Eliza Lucas Pinckney who signed the constitution and led South Carolina to ratification | Charles Cotesworth Pinckney |
| years that the articles were in effect | 1781-1787 |
| What are the Articles of Confederation? | understood the combination of states as a “league of friendship.” All of the national power rested with a unicameral legislative branch- had very little authority |
| What a happened as a result of the poor crop years of the Revolution? | Economic depression- unable to pay debts, many lost homes. |
| What is the territory west of Pennsylvania and north of the Ohio River | Northwest Territory |
| What did the Land Ordinance of 1785? | system for settling the Northwest Territory, and the Northwest Ordinances were passed in 1787 which set up a government, guaranteed basic rights |
| A Massachusetts farmer was angered by the high state taxes, unfair treatment, and loss of land what did he start? | Shays’ Rebellion |
| when the constitutional convention started their meeting in Philadelphia | May 1787 |
| What is a Popular sovereignty? | power comes from the people. They create, approve, and change the constitution, and they vote in elections |
| How did the founders create a limited governement? | establish an electoral college- separate the powers of the federal government |
| What is the separation of powers? | the three branches of the government (trias politica) checked the power of the government |
| What is the Executive Branch? | president checks the power of the legislative branch by vetoing bills checks the judicial branch by appointing justices |
| What is the Legislative Branch? | Congress and house of representatives check executive branch and judicial branch by impeachment |
| What is the Judicial Branch? | Supreme Court checks the power of the executive and legislative branches with the power to rule their decisions unconstitutional |
| who wrote about trias politica and the separation of powers? | Montesquieu |
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