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OC Rachel N. Ch4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The magna carta | a docume4nt signed by King John in 1215 made the king subject to laws |
| Influence of the Magna Carta on the Constituion | limited national government's power |
| Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Statue for religious freedom | this document declared that no person would be forced to attend a particular church or be required to pay for church with tax $$$ |
| Northwest Ordinance of 1787: slavery | Slavery was banned but it was still an issue |
| Northwest Ordinance of 1787: adding new states | it included areas that are now Illinois, indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota and Wisconsin |
| Purpose of the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1785 | To help the government take controll of America |
| how land was divided under the Land Ordinance of 1785 | they set up a system for survaying and dividing western lands |
| Major influnces of the U.S Constitution | Congress would become a single branch of government, but with limited power in order to protect peoples liberty. |
| How the Articles of Confederation reflected the ideas in the Dec. Of Ind. | the declaration of independence, was all about freedom, same as the Articles |
| significance of the Articles of Confederation | It was the "blue prints" of the Dec. of Ind. |
| Main cause of Shays rebellion | tax on farms, if not payed farms were revoked |
| U.S. gov.'s response to Shays rebellion | to stop them, it took awhile, and made them rethink how their government worked. |
| American Citizens' response to Shay rebellion | they also thoguth the way they were being lawed, was not entirely acurate |
| significance to Shays rebellion | It brought the writers back together back together, for the Constitutional convention, and they wrote the constituion |
| main features of the Articles of Confederation | The Great Compromise, three- fiths compromise |
| problems with britain after the revolution | they had forts all along the cost and they would not give them up to the U.S |
| problems with spain after the revolution | They closed the Mississippi river, which was a major gateway with their goods |
| purpose of the constitutional convention | the constitutional conventional, re-wrote the Articles of Confederation, to a better more efficient document |
| Virginia plan | written by James Madison, brought by Edmund Randolph proposed three branches of government: Legislative, executive, and judicial |
| New jersey plan | brought by William Patterson: proposed every state recived 1 vote in the legislature, regardless of size. |
| Great compromise | By Robert Sherman; reopresentation in the House of Representatives would be based on population. each state would get the same number of senators |
| North VS. South disagreement over slavery at the Constitutional Convention | south needed slaves, while north did not and belived, strongly, that it was wrong. |
| Three-fiths compromise | said slaves would be counted as 3/5ths of a person when determining a state's population for representation |
| popular sovereignty | the idea that political authority, belongs to the people, and that they have a limited government. |
| federalism | the sharing of power between a central governmnet and the states that make up a country. |
| purpose of checks and balances in the government | three branches of government share power through a system called " checks and balances". |
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OC rachel N.p.3
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