Chapter 8
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| The leader of the Continental Army, President of the Constitutional Convention and became the first President of the United States. | George Washington
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| Wrote the Declaration of Independence, President Washington's Secretary of State | Thomas Jefferson
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| President Washington's Secretary of Treasury-wanted a national bank | Alexander Hamilton
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| The federal government can take reasonable actions that the Constitution doesn't specifically forbid. | Loose Construction/Interpretation
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| Federal government should only do what the constitution specifically says it can do. | Strict Construction/Interpretation
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| The practice of allowing each territory to decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery. | Popular Sovereignty
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| Farmers led by Daniel Shay attacked courthouses and prevented the state from seizing the farms. Showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. | Shay's Rebellion
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| A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to convince colonists that it was time to become independent from Britain | Common Sense
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| Blamed for losing the American Revolution. | Lord North
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| British general who surrendered at Yorktown. | Lord Charles Cornwallis
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| The turning point of the American Revolution as it gave France a reason to enter the war against Britain. | Battle of Saratoga
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| 5 colonist were killed when Red Coats fired into a mob of angry colonists-Crispus Attucks: he was one of the first casualty of the American Revolution | Boston Massacre
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| 1. Closed Boston Harbor 2. Cancelled the Massachusetts Charter and legislative meetings 3. Moved trials of British Officials to Briton. 4. Made Colonists house British Soldiers (Quartering Act) | Intolerable/Coercive Acts
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| A policy of establishing the principles and procedures for the orderly expansion of the United States. | Northwest Ordinance
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| Colonist must provide shelter and supplies to British soldiers. (Came from the Intolerable Acts) | Quartering Act
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| An order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. | Proclamation of 1763
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| An action or decision that later serves as an example. | Precendent
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| King of England during the American Revolution. Issued the Proclamation of 1763 and refused the Olive Branch Petition. | George III
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| What 'Acts' did the Parliament pass in 1774 to punish Massachusetts for the Tea Party? Intolerable Acts | Intolerable Acts
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| Most power held by the states. One branch of government Legistlative Branch had few powers. No executive branch. No judicial branch. No system of checks and balance. | Articles of Confederation
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