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Articles of confeder

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Magna Carta   an English document that limited the power of the monarch  
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constitution   a set of basic principles and laws that states the powers and duties of the government  
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Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom   a law that included Thomas Jefferson’s ideas granting religious freedom  
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suffrage   voting rights  
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Articles of Confederation   the new national constitution, which made a new Confederation Congress the national government  
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ratification   official approval of the Articles of Confederation by the states  
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Land Ordinance of 1785   a law that set up a system for surveying land and dividing the Northwest Territory  
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787   a law that established the Northwest Territory and formed a political system for the region  
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Northwest Territory   a territory including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin  
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Declaration of Independence   the document that formally announced the colonies’ break from Great Britain  
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Loyalists   colonists, sometimes called Tories, who remained loyal to Britain  
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Common Sense   a 47-page pamphlet that argued against British rule over America  
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Comte de Rochambeau   commander of 4,000 French troops that aided the Patriot forces at the Battle of Yorktown  
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Battle of Yorktown   the last major battle of the American Revolution  
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Treaty of Paris of 1783   the peace agreement in which Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States  
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Virginia Plan   a plan giving supreme power to the central government and creating a bicameral legislature made of two groups, or houses, of representatives  
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New Jersey Plan   a plan creating a unicameral, or one-house, legislature  
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Great Compromise   an agreement that gave each state one vote in the upper house of the legislature and a number of representatives based on its population in the lower house  
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Three-Fifths Compromise   only three-fifths of a state’s slaves were counted when deciding representation in Congress  
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popular sovereignty   the idea that political power belongs to the people  
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federalism   the sharing of power between a central government and the states  
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legislative branch   a Congress of two houses that proposes and passes laws  
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executive branch   the president and the departments that help run the government  
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judicial branch   a system of all the national courts  
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checks and balances   a system that keeps any branch of government from becoming too powerful  
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federal system   the government system that gives certain powers to the federal government  
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impeach   vote to bring charges of serious crimes against a president veto cancel  
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executive orders   commands from the president that have the power of law  
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pardons   orders from the president that grant freedom from punishment  
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Thurgood Marshall   the first African American Supreme Court Justice, appointed in 1967  
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majority rule   the idea that the greatest number of people in a society can make policies for everyone  
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petition   a request made of the government  
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search warrant   an order authorities must get before they search someone’s property  
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due process   a rule that the law must be fairly applied indict formally accuse  
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double jeopardy   a rule that says a person cannot be tried for the same crime more than once  
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eminent domain   the government’s power to take personal property to benefit the public  
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Guerrilla warfare   swift hit and run attacks  
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