1. Chapter 5 Vocabulary Review

2. A charter of liberties agreed to by King John that made the king obey the same laws as citizens

3. Magna Carta
A charter of liberties agreed to by King John that made the king obey the same laws as citizens

4. A shift of political power from the British monarchy to Parliament

5. English Bill of Rights
A shift of political power from the British monarchy to Parliament

6. A set of basic principles that determines the powers and duties of a government

7. Constitution
A set of basic principles that determines the powers and duties of a government

8. A document that created the first central government for the United States

9. Articles of Confederation
A document that created the first central government for the United States

10. An official approval

11. ratification
An official approval

12. Legislation passed by Congress authorizing surveys and the division of public lands in the western region of the country

13. Land Ordinance of 1785
Legislation passed by Congress authorizing surveys and the division of public lands in the western region of the country

14. Legislation passed by Congress to establish a political structure and create a system for the admission of new states

15. Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Legislation passed by Congress to establish a political structure and create a system for the admission of new states

16. A tax on imports and exports

17. tariffs
A tax on imports and exports

18. An uprising of Massachusetts’s farmers to protest high taxes, heavy debt, and farm foreclosures.

19. Shay’s Rebellion
An uprising of Massachusetts’s farmers to protest high taxes, heavy debt, and farm foreclosures.

20. A meeting held in Philadelphia at which delegates from the states wrote the Constitution

21. Constitutional Convention
A meeting held in Philadelphia at which delegates from the states wrote the Constitution

22. The plan for government proposed at the Constitutional Convention in which the national government would have supreme power and a legislative branch would have 2 houses with representation determined by the state population

23. Virginia Plan
The plan for government proposed at the Constitutional Convention in which the national government would have supreme power and a legislative branch would have 2 houses with representation determined by the state population

24. A proposal to create a unicameral legislature with equal representation of states rather than representation by population

25. New Jersey Plan
A proposal to create a unicameral legislature with equal representation of states rather than representation by population

26. An agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention establishing that a state’s population would determine representation in the lower house of the legislation, while each state would have equal representation in the upper house of the legislature

27. Great Compromise
An agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention establishing that a state’s population would determine representation in the lower house of the legislation, while each state would have equal representation in the upper house of the legislature

28. An agreement worked out at the Constitution stating that enslaved people would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining a state’s population for representation in the lower house of Congress.

29. 3/5 Compromise
An agreement worked out at the Constitution stating that enslaved people would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining a state’s population for representation in the lower house of Congress.

30. The idea that political authority belongs to the people

31. Popular sovereignty
The idea that political authority belongs to the people

32. U.S. system of government in which power is distributed between a central government and individual states.

33. federalism
U.S. system of government in which power is distributed between a central government and individual states.

34. The division of the government that makes laws.

35. Legislative branch
The division of the government that makes laws.

36. The division of the federal government that includes the president and the administrative departments

37. Executive branch
The division of the federal government that includes the president and the administrative departments

38. The division of the federal government that is made up of the national courts

39. Judicial branch
The division of the federal government that is made up of the national courts

40. A system established by the Constitution that prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful

41. Checks and balances
A system established by the Constitution that prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful

42. People who opposed ratification of the Constitution

43. Antifederalists
People who opposed ratification of the Constitution

44. People who supported ratification of the Constitution

45. federalists
People who supported ratification of the Constitution

46. A series of essays that defended and explained the Constitution and tried to reassure Americans that the states would not be overpowered by the proposed national government.

47. Federalists Papers
A series of essays that defended and explained the Constitution and tried to reassure Americans that the states would not be overpowered by the proposed national government.

48. Official change to a law

49. amendments
Official change to a law

50. The first 10 amendments to the Constitution

51. Bill of Rights
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution