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Articles of confeder
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Magna Carta | an English document that limited the power of the monarch |
| constitution | a set of basic principles and laws that states the powers and duties of the government |
| Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom | a law that included Thomas Jefferson’s ideas granting religious freedom |
| suffrage | voting rights |
| Articles of Confederation | the new national constitution, which made a new Confederation Congress the national government |
| ratification | official approval of the Articles of Confederation by the states |
| Land Ordinance of 1785 | a law that set up a system for surveying land and dividing the Northwest Territory |
| Northwest Ordinance of 1787 | a law that established the Northwest Territory and formed a political system for the region |
| Northwest Territory | a territory including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin |
| Declaration of Independence | the document that formally announced the colonies’ break from Great Britain |
| Loyalists | colonists, sometimes called Tories, who remained loyal to Britain |
| Common Sense | a 47-page pamphlet that argued against British rule over America |
| Comte de Rochambeau | commander of 4,000 French troops that aided the Patriot forces at the Battle of Yorktown |
| Battle of Yorktown | the last major battle of the American Revolution |
| Treaty of Paris of 1783 | the peace agreement in which Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States |
| Virginia Plan | a plan giving supreme power to the central government and creating a bicameral legislature made of two groups, or houses, of representatives |
| New Jersey Plan | a plan creating a unicameral, or one-house, legislature |
| Great Compromise | an agreement that gave each state one vote in the upper house of the legislature and a number of representatives based on its population in the lower house |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | only three-fifths of a state’s slaves were counted when deciding representation in Congress |
| popular sovereignty | the idea that political power belongs to the people |
| federalism | the sharing of power between a central government and the states |
| legislative branch | a Congress of two houses that proposes and passes laws |
| executive branch | the president and the departments that help run the government |
| judicial branch | a system of all the national courts |
| checks and balances | a system that keeps any branch of government from becoming too powerful |
| federal system | the government system that gives certain powers to the federal government |
| impeach | vote to bring charges of serious crimes against a president veto cancel |
| executive orders | commands from the president that have the power of law |
| pardons | orders from the president that grant freedom from punishment |
| Thurgood Marshall | the first African American Supreme Court Justice, appointed in 1967 |
| majority rule | the idea that the greatest number of people in a society can make policies for everyone |
| petition | a request made of the government |
| search warrant | an order authorities must get before they search someone’s property |
| due process | a rule that the law must be fairly applied indict formally accuse |
| double jeopardy | a rule that says a person cannot be tried for the same crime more than once |
| eminent domain | the government’s power to take personal property to benefit the public |
| Guerrilla warfare | swift hit and run attacks |
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