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| Magna Carta | (1215) a charter of liberties agreed to by King John of England, it made the king obey the same laws as citizens |
| constitution | a basic set of principles that determines the powers and duties of a government |
| Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom | (1786) a document that gave people in Virginia freedom of worship and prohibited tax money from being used to fund churches |
| suffrage | voting rights |
| Articles of Confederation | (1777) the document that created the first central government for the United States; was replaced by the Constitution in 1789 |
| ratification | an official approval |
| Land Ordinance of 1785 | legislation passed by Congress authorizing surveys and the division of public lands in the western region of the country |
| Northwest Ordinance of 1787 | legislation passed by Congress to establish a political structure for the Northwest Territory and create a system for the admission of new states |
| Northwest Territory | lands including present-day Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohoi, and Wisconsin; organized by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
| tariffs | a tax on imports or exports |
| interstate commerce | trade between two or more states |
| inflation | increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money |
| depression | a steep drop in economic activity combined with rising unemployment |
| Daniel Shays | Revolutionary War officer who led Shays's Rebellion, an uprising of farmers in western Massachusetts that shut down the courts so that farmers would not lose their farms for tax debts. He was defeated and condemned to death, but pardoned |
| Shays's Rebellion | an uprising of Massachusetts's farmers, led by Daniel Shays, to protest high taxes, heavy debt, and farm foreclosures |
