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American Government5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ordinance | A law |
| Ratify | To accept |
| Amendment | A change in the Constitution |
| Political Party | A group that shares similar ideas about government |
| The Great Compromise | A plan to divide Congress into two parts |
| Alexander Hamilton | National government should support manufacturing and trade |
| George Washington | Approved the law to create a national bank |
| Checks and balances | How each branch of the national government is limited |
| Articles of Confederation | A plan for central government |
| Antifederalists | Thought the constitution was dangerous because it did not contain a Bill of Rights |
| The states | Had more power than the national government |
| White, male landowners | The representatives at the Constitutional Convention |
| Democratic-Republicans and Federalists | The political parties formed by supporters of Jefferson and Hamilton |
| The Bill of Rights | Protects freedom of speech and religion |
| George Washington's advice | Do not take sides in foreign wars |
| Compromise of slavery | Every five enslaved persons count as three free people |
| Judicial, Legislative, Executive | Three branches of government |
| Legislative branch | Makes laws |
| Executive branch | Carries out laws |
| Judicial branch | Decides the meaning of laws |
| More power than the national government |