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| Benjamin Franklin | This old man was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation? |
| George Washington | First president of the United States? |
| Thomas Jefferson | Proposed the idea of the Bill of Rights? |
| Thomas Jefferson | Washington's secretary of state? |
| Alexander Hamilton | Washington's secretary of the treasury? |
| John Adams | Followed Washington as president of the United States? |
| John Marshall | John Adams appointed this man Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? |
| Henry Knox | Washington's secretary of war? |
| John Adams | First vice-president |
| House of Representatives | Lawmakers who are elected for two-year terms? |
| James Madison | Who was "Father of the Constitution"? |
| Thomas Jefferson | Man representing the United States in France when the Articles of Confederation were to be revised? |
| Senators | Lawmakers elected for six-year terms? |
| John Adams | Man representing the United States in England when the Articles of Confederation were to be revised? |
| Alexander Hamilton | Born in the West Indies, this man believed in a strong central government? |
| Thomas Jefferson | Township method of surveying land was invented by this man? |
| Daniel Shays | Led a revolt on the part of farmers against lawsuits that were taking their farms? |
| George Washington | Man chosen as chairman of the meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation? |
| John Jay, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton | Wrote the Federalist Papers? |
| Edmund Randolph | Washington's attorney general? |
| Roger Sherman | This man from Connecticut was the only man to have signed the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution? |
| Thomas Pinckney | Worked out an agreement/treaty between the United States and Spain for President Washington? |
| Edmund Genet | Frenchman who tried to get the United States to side with France against Great Britain? |
| Mount Vernon | Name of George Washington's home? |
| Philadelphia | The meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation was held in? |
| New Hampshire | This state was the ninth one to agree to the Constitution, thus making it our form of government? |
| Maryland and Virginia | Gave land for our capital city? |
| France | Country which had a revolution shortly after our federal government was established? |
| Maryland | Colony which refused to agree to the new form of government unless the other colonies gave up their claim to the western lands? |
| Rhode Island and North Carolina | Did not ratify the Constitution in time to vote in the first election? |
| Spain | This country controlled the city of New Orleans? |
| Rhode Island | This state did not send a delegate to the convention to revise the Articles of Confederation? |
| Articles of Confederation | Our first written form of government? |
| Northwest Ordinance | This important law was passed in 1787 and organized the lands north of the Ohio River? |
| Congress | Law-making body of the United States? |
| Veto | When a president refuses to sign a bill? |
| Bill of Rights? | The first ten amendments to the Constitution? |
| Cabinet | Group which advises the president; members are heads of the executive departments? |
| District of Columbia | The initials "D.C." which follow Washington? |
| Whiskey | Alexander Hamilton placed an excise tax on this item and made the western farmers angry? |
| Federalist | Alexander Hamilton became the leader of this new political party? |
| Democratic-Republican | Thomas Jefferson became the leader of this new political party? |
| Federalist Papers | Series of papers written in support of the new federal government? |
| Section | Under the Northwest Ordinance, a mile square was called? |
| House of Representatives | Each state would be represented according to its population in this part of Congress? |
| Executive | The president and his cabinet are part of this branch of government? |
| Constitution | The supreme law of the land comes from this document? |
| Senate | Each state would be allowed two votes in this part of Congress? |
| Supreme Court | This branch of government was to settle quarrels between the states? |
| Jay Treaty | The agreement between the United States and Great Britain that said Great Britain would get out of the Northwest Territory? |
| Central Congress | Under the first form of government, this group was made up of delegates from the thirteen states? |
| Township | Under the Northwest Ordinance a six-mile square piece of land was called a? |
| Public Schools | One section of each township was set aside for the support of? |
| Check and Balance System | Each branch of our government has the power to keep the other two from becoming too strong. This is called? |
| Taxing Power | Under the Articiles of Confederation the Central Congress did not have this? |
| Virginia Plan | The plan that would give more power to the large states? |
| Compromise | When the people on two sides of an argument give in a little to get agreement? |
| Neutrality | Washington said the United States should not get involved in the quarrels of Europe. This non-involvement is called? |
| New Jersey Plan | The plan that the small states wanted at the Constitutional Convention? |
| Right of Deposit | The right to unload ships and store goods on the docks was called? |
| Impressing | Capturing American sailors and forcing them to serve in the British navy? |
| Atlantic Ocean | Body of water separating Europe and the United States? |
| Rivers | Farmers used these bodies of water to get their goods to market? |
| Gulf of Mexico | New Orleans is on this body of water? |
| Ohio | This river starts at Pittsburgh and joins the Mississippi? |
| Potomac | Washington, D.C. is located on this river? |
| Savannah | This river forms the border between the states of South Carolina and Georgia? |
| English Channel | This body of water separates England and France? |
