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Chosen to preside over the Constitutional Convention
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Who is George Washington?
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Led a rebellion in Massachusetts because judges were confiscating farmers’ lands.
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Who was Daniel Shays?
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Suggested the Great Compromise.
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Who was Roger Sherman?
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An English Philosopher who believed that all people have natural rights.
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Who was John Locke?
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The outcome of the Articles of Confederation
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What was a failure and eventually replaced by the Constitution?
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A plan of government
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What is a constitution?
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Two house legislature
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What is bicameral?
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Freeing of individual enslaved persons.
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What is manumission ?
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Sharing of powers between the federal and state governments.
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What is federalism?
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A form of government in which the people elect their officials to make their laws.
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What is a republic?
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America’s first constitution.
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What is the Articles of Confederation?
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Established a procedure for surveying and selling western lands north of the Ohio Valley.
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What is the Ordinance of 1785?
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This law created a single Northwest Territory out of lands north of the Ohio River.
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What is the Northwest Ordinance?
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Proposed by Edmund Randolph, this plan called for a 2 house legislature.
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What is the Virginia Plan?
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Proposed by William Patterson, this plan called for a one house legislature where each state would have one vote.
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What is the New Jersey Plan?
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The compromise that stated that each enslaved person would count as 3/5 of a free person.
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What is the Three- Fifths Compromise?
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How many people needed to live in a territory before it could apply for statehood?
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What is 60,000?
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How many states had to ratify the Constitution?
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What is 9?
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How many members are there in the House of Representative?
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What is 435?
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How many members are there in the Senate today?
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What is 100?
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The strongest criticism of the Constitution.
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What is no Bill of Rights?
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The book of essays explaining and supporting the Constitution.
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What are the Federalists Papers?
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The president and v.p. are elected by a special group.
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What is the Electoral College?
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2 Documents that influenced the framers of the Constitution.
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What is the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights?
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3 branches of government
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What is legislative, executive and judicial?
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