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| constitution | A plan of government for the new nation. |
| confederation | A joining together of states or nations. |
| Articles of Confederation | The first government of the United States. Each of the thirteen states had its own government under the Articles of Confederation. |
| territory | Land belonging to the national government that does not have equal standing with the states. |
| Daniel Shays | Led the farmers. Tried to make the Massachusetts state government pass certain laws to help them. (Shay's Rebellion) |
| Shay's Rebellion | The farmers couldn't pay their debts so they started a rebellion trying to make the Mass. government pass laws to help them. |
| Northwest Territory | The land between the Great Lakes and the Ohio River. |
| convention | A series of meetings. |
| republic | A government where citizes govern themselves through elected representatives. |
| legislative branch | Legislature; Makes the laws. |
| compromise | A way of settling differences of opinion by agreeing that each side will give up part of what it wants. |
| executive branch | Carries out the laws. |
| judicial branch | Judges and courts; Decides if laws were broken and what laws mean. |
| checks and balances | Each branch of government would limit the powers of the other branches. |
| federalism | The division of power between state and national governments; federal system. |
| amendment | A change in the Constitution or in a law. |
| Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, George Washington and Governor Morris | Delegates of the Constitutional Convention. |
| tariff | Tax; raised the price of foreign goods. |
| political party | A group of people who share ideas on how to run and improve their government. |
| Alexander Hamilton | Secretary of Treasury; he had to find a way to pay the 55 million owed by the Confederation Government. |
| Daniel Boone | A hunter and explorer that carved out the Wilderness Road that settlers followed. |
| Lewis and Clark | Sent by Jefferson to learn about the people, landforms, vegetation and animals within the Louisiana Purchase. |
| Sacajawea | Lewis and Clark's guide in the land of the Shoshones. |
| Tecumseh | The great Shawnee leader that tried to keep people who were not Indians from settling in the Shawnee village. |
| Francis Scott Key | Lawyer who watched the British bomb Fort McHenry, Maryland. Wrote the words to "THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER" |
| Prophet's Town | The Shawnee Village that was destroyed by U.S. Soldiers |
| Louisianna Purchase | President Jefferson bought land from France which became the next 13 states in the west. |
