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American Government5
Question | Answer |
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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 |