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| Articles of Confederation | first form of constitution for America |
| democratic republic | government consisitng of representatives chosen by the people and reflecting of the people |
| checks and balances | each branch is given the power to control the other two branches |
| Federalism | a system of government in which the national and state governments share power |
| Bill of Rights | first ten amendments to the Constitution, disigned to protect people against the powers of the government |
| headright | Georgia system for distributing land, specifying that every "head" of household had a "right" to land |
| Yazoo Land Fraud | dishonest distribution of land that resulted from the Yazoo Act, which allowed Georgia to sell large areas of western lands to private companies that would sell the land to settlers at much higher prices |
| land lottery | lottery system used to distribute newly acquired Native American land in Georgia |
| Louisiana Purchase | American purchase of French lands west of the Mississippi, including New Orleans for 15 million, doubling the size of the country |
| Lewis and Clark Expedition | group led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark that explored in northern parts of the Louisiana Purchase to the coast of Oregon between 1804 and 1806 |
| Founding Fathers | the people who made the greatest contributions to the establishment of our country |
| constitutional convention | a meeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the Srticles of Confederation, resulted in the drafting of the constitution |
