| A | B |
| What is the supreme court? | The head of the judical branch of the fed. gov.. It's the highest branch. |
| What is a senate? | The house of congress in were each state has = amount # of rep.or senater regaurdless of pop. |
| C convection? | the meeting of 12state's delegates in philli,penn that replaced the articles of C w/ a new constition. |
| What was the porpose of the great comprimise? | Not to big state. |
| How long ago was the constition written? | 4200yrs |
| xutive branch? | The part of gov. headed by the president, That carries out the law. |
| judical branch? | The part of gov. that decides the meanings of the law. |
| legislative branch? | The law-making part of gov.,with the power to raise the money needed to run. |
| House of rep.? | The house of congress in were each states #s of reps. is decided by it's pop. |
| What are the articles of confed.? | They gave power to the gov. of each state. |
| What what did each state of the art. of c get? | made own laws,Collected own taxes,printed own $. |
| What was the Northwest passage? | northwest territory was divided into smaller territorys which could be a state but other states could n claim it. |
| Why did art. of c give most powers to the states? | After yr. under british rule it made many peeps distrust british gov. w/ a strong central ground. |
| Under the northwest ordinace when could a terr ask 4 state hood. | When they got more than 60,000 peeps. |
| how did the art. of c change colonists minds about the role of a central gov.? | When they were givin power they had conflicts & seperated & lost unity. |
| What were british strenghts? | well-trained,well supplied,strong navy,mercenaries. |
| What were british weaknesses? | not enough public support,fought on forein soil,were transported,was expensive |
| american strengths? | fought on home ground, familiar w/ land, strong leadership |
| what were the colonists weaknesses? | Poorley trained,porrly supplied army. |
| Who were the patriots? | Supported war. |
| what is a loyalist? | Loyal to the british. |
| What is the treaty of paris? | British reconized american independence. |
| wht happened during the treaty? | west of appalachain became US florida was givin to spain. |