| A | B |
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| constitution | a plan of government |
| George Mason | The main writer of Virginia's plan. It was the first constitution of any state. |
| commonwealth | a state that is governed by the people |
| Virginia Declaration of Rights | written by George Mason. It listed the rights he believed all Virginians should have. |
| religion | the way people worship the God or gods they believe in |
| Constitutional Convention | the meeting held in 1787 to create a constitution for all the colonies. |
| delegates | people chosen to speak for others |
| Edmund Randolph | Virginia governor who attended the Constitutional Convention as a delegate for Virginia. |
| James Madison | A young patriot who served as a delegate for Virginia during the Constitutional Convention. |
| George Washington | served as a delegate for Virginia during the Constitutional Convention. |
| Mount Vernon | George Washington's home in Virginia. |
| outline | a plan that lets you organize what you want to say about a subject. |
| James Monroe | A Virginian who was sent by Thomas Jefferson to France. His job was to get the Louisiana Territory. France agreed to sell it for 15 million dollars. |
| Meriwether Lewis & William Clark | Explorers of the Louisiana Purchase. |
| War of 1812 | The war fought between the United States and Great Britain. |
| Dolley Madison | Wife of President James Madison. She saved a portrait of George Washington from being destroyed by invading British troops during the War of 1812. |
| Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom | A law that gave Virginians the right to worship however they wished. |
| Cumberland Gap | A narrow valley in the Appalacian Mountains that became the main route for the movement west. |
| Cyrus McCormick | An important inventor. He invented the reaper. It was a machine for harvesting wheat. |
| Matthew Maury | His nickname was "Pathfinder of the Seas". He mapped ocean currents and located dangerous reefs in the oceans. |
