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us history chapter4
cameron mazzanoperiod 5
Question | Answer |
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The Magna Carta | a document that was signed by king john in 1215, made the king subject law. |
influence of the Magna Carta on the constitution | It kept the king from passing new laws or taxes without the parlements agreement |
Thomas Jeffersons virginia statue for religous freedom | this document stated that no person could be forced to attend a particular church or be required to pay for a church or be required to pay with tax money |
north west ordinance of slavery:1785 | this set up a system for surveying and dividing western lands |
north west ordinance of 1787 adding new states | established, illinois, indiana, michigan, ohio, minnisota, and wissconsin` |
The Magna Carta | a document that was signed by king john in 1215, made the king subject law. |
influence of the Magna Carta on the constitution | It kept the king from passing new laws or taxes without the parlements agreement |
Thomas Jeffersons virginia statue for religous freedom | this document stated that no person could be forced to attend a particular church or be required to pay for a church or be required to pay with tax money |
north west ordinance of slavery:1785 | this set up a system for surveying and dividing western lands |
north west ordinance of 1787 adding new states | established, illinois, indiana, michigan, ohio, minnisota, and wissconsin` |
purpose for the land of ordinance | this was so the states could be established |
how the states would be divided | the congress agreed that the states would be divided into smaller territories with a govenor approved by the congress |
major influinces of the constitution | mayflower compact, magna carta, then english bill of rights, the enightenment |
how the articles of confederation effected the decleration of indipendence | it made the many people who wrote it think of many ideas for the decleration of indipendence |
significance of the articles of confederation | congress would become a single branch and have limited powers so all are equal |
main cause of shays rebellion | massechucetts would not print worthless paper money so they tried to pay war debts with money of the land |
the governments responnse of shays rebellion | the government did not care about the poor farmers, in some cases the farmers owed them money |
amrican citizens response to shays rebellion | the amrican citizens became allys and formed a small army to protest and call themselves the rebels |
the significane of shays rebellion | shays rebellion was to help out the farmers from there hard times with no money because of the taxe when the states were once colonies |
main features of the articles of confederation | magna carta, mayflower compact and the enligtenment |
trade with brittian | they created the tarrifs, which were fees that american merchants were forced to pay |
trade with spain | spain did not negotiate with the americans and refused to trade |
virginia plan | he proposed a new federal law constitution that would give freedom or supreme power to the central government |
new jersey | a plan that the smaller states came up with that would prevent the larger states from getting to musch power |
the great comprimise | the agreement to create a two house legislater became known as the great comprimise |
north vs south: slavery | the northern states did not want slavery and tzhe southern states did because they had the big plantations and less workers |
three fiths comprimise | under this agreement pnly three fiths of a states slave population would count when t=determaning representation |
popular soverignty | the idea that political athourity belongs to the people |
federalism | is the sharing of power between a central government and the states that make up a country |
purpose of the checks and balances | balances among 3 branches, each is responsible for proposing and passing laws |
how the constitution reflected the declaration of indipendence | the constitution sqaid that each state had the athourity of federal or national government so that wasw one of the things written in the declartation of independence |
power of the national government | had three branches, legislative, executive, and the judical branch |
power of the states government | they had limited power so the citizens would be safe and thay had no king, just there own government |
similar powers between n gov and s gov | they both had the power of religous freedom, and and didnt have to be taxed by brittish government |
federalists | supporters of the constitution |
anti-federalists | people who opposed the constitution |
federalist papers | these essays supporting the constitution were wiritten anonymously under the name publious |
english bill of rights | this took power away from the english monarch and this was effected in the declaration of independence |
reasaons we still use the us constitution | because the constitution was the way americans became americans and chose thier own way of living and created there own safe and reliable government |