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| Who was a major thinker and write during the Enlightenment? |
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| What branch of the U.S. government make up the court system? |
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| What was the name of America's first constitution? |
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| The Articles of Confederation |
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| What is the name of the lawmaking branch of government? |
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| Who introduced the Virginia Plan? |
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| What document created the Conferation Congress? |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| What protects individual rights? |
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| Presidential electors make up the __________ ____________ |
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| What was Shay's Rebellion? |
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| To protect farmers from the state |
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| Why was the government of the Confederation unable to pay its debts? |
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| What years did the Articles of Conferation govern the U.S.? |
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| Under the U.S. Constitution, the president and vice-president are elected indirectly by a special group called the ____________. |
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| What two important British documents influenced the framers of the U.S. Constition? |
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| Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights |
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| What divided in the West,north of the Ohio River into townships six miles long and six miles wide? |
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| What did the Constitutional Convention decide that Congress would not interfere with for 20 years? |
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| What is the most distinctive features of the U.S. government? |
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| What is the period when economic activity slows and unemployment increases called? |
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| Who suggested the Great Compromise? |
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| Which two states kept their colonial charters as their constitutions? |
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| Connecticut, Rhode Island |
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| What state was the first to approve the Constitution? |
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| What movement influenced the Constitution's architects? |
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| What was the name of America's first constitution? |
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| The Articles of Confederation |
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| What law helped stop the spread of slavery to the west? |
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| What group supported the new Constitution? |
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| What keeps any one branch of government from gaining too much power? |
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| How many states did Congress need to pass a law? |
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| Control and use of what river was a major issue between the U.S. and Spain in the 1780's? |
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| How many states had to approve the Articles of Confederation? |
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| Who has final authority under the federal system? |
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| What type of government allow citizens to rule through elected representatives? |
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| What was the name of the book of essays explaning and supporting the Constitution? |
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| The Divison of powers between the national government and the states is a _______________ system? |
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| How can the president check Congress |
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| What was the product of the "grand committee" |
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| limited the power of the government |
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| Under the Confederation, many states avoided a concentration of government power by establishing a ____________ legislature. |
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| When the U.S. Constitution was completed, why did three delegates refuse to sign it? |
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| It did not have a Bill of Rights |
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| The central government authority under the Articles of Confederation was the _____________ |
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| The system of ______________ in the U.S. Constitution ensures that no one branch of the federal government can become too powerful. |
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| Who was the presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention? |
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| What type of legislatures did most states establish? |
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