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| Great Compromise | established the 2 houses of congress |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | solved the problem of whether to count slaves in the southern states as population |
| compromise over the slave trade | Northerners agreed that Congress could not outlaw the slave trade for 20 years and agreed that no state could stop a fugitive slave from being returned |
| Federalist | Those men who supported the Constitution |
| Anti-federalists | those who thought the Constitution made the Federal Government to strong & gave the president too much power |
| Bill of Rights | this document spelled out those basic freedoms |
| democracy | government by the people, (voting originated in Greece) |
| federalism | division of power between the states and the national government |
| bicameralism | having two legislative houses |
| separation of powers | system in which the power of a government is divided among separate branches |
| checks and balances | System set up by the Constitution in which each branch of the federal government has the power to check, or control, the actions of the other branches |
| Step 1 for creating a new state | Governors and judges appointed by Congress would rule a territory until it contained 5,000 free male inhabitants of voting age |
| Step 2 for creating a new state | then the inhabitants would elect a territorial legislature, which would send a non-voting delegate to Congress |
| Step 3 for creating a new state | When the population reached 60,000, the legislature would submit a state constitution to Congress |
| Step 4 for creating a new state | upon approval of constitution, the state would enter the Union |
| Alexander Hamilton | Federalist leader |
| Thomas Jefferson | Anti-Federalist leader |
| Federalist | Political party that believed in a strong central government |
| Anti-Federalist | Political party wanted states and individual rights |
| Northwest Ordinance | finest achievement of the national government under the Articles of Confederation |
| due process | government has to respect person's legal rights when accused of a crime. |
| dictatorship | one leader with all power & citizens cannot vote |
| absolute monarchy | king or queen with all power citizens cannot vote |
| direct democracy | citizens vote directly on all laws |
| representative democracy | citizens vote for others to make their laws & run their country |
| Magna Carta | charter created in 1215, many American rights came from this document |
