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35 Cards in this Set
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Mt. Vernon Congress
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to review what would be done about the countrys inability to overcome critical problems
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Annapolis Convention
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was held to discuss ways to improve commercial relations among the state between the delegates.
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James Madison
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directed the work in fashioning specific articles of the constitution
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Checks and balances
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one branch of government having sufficient power to check the others
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constitutional convention
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held for the purpose of revising the Articles of confederation
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Virginia Plan
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favored large states
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New Jersey Plan
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favored the small states
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Connecticut Plan, Great Compromise
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provided for a two house congress
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Three-fifths compromise
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counted each slave as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of determining a states level of taxation and representation
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Senate
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the upper house of US congress
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Commercial compromise
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allowed congress to regulate interstate and foreign commerce
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electoral college system
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rather tan having the people elect a president delegates decided to assign to each state an number of electors equal to the total of that states representatives and senators
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federalists
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those who supported the constitution and a strong gov
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anti-federalists
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didnt support the constitution
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the federalists papers
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presented cogent reasons for believing in the practicality of each major provision of the constitution.
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bill of rights, amendments
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rights listed to the people
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legislative branch
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determined from day to day by the decisions of congress
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executive departments
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the president as head
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supreme court
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top of federal court in judicial branch
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executive departments
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secretary of state, treasury, and attorney general
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Alexander Hamilton
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secretary of treasury
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Judiciary Act
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established a supreme court with one chief justice and five associate justices
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Federal court
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supreme court
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infant industries
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new and developing
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national bank
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printed bank notes
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Tariffs
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taxes
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French Revolutionary war
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because Britain was seizing american merchant ships bound for french ports US joined french against Britain
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proclamation of neutrality
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Washington believed that america was not strong enough to engage on the European war so ge issued this
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citizen edmond genet
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broke all the normal rules of diplomacy by appealing directly to the American people to suppport the French cause
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jay treaty
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thomas pinckeney negotiated a treaty in which spain agreed to open the lower mississippi river and new orleans to american trade
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right of deposit
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granted to americans so that they could transfer cargoes in cew orleans with out paying duties to the spanish government
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battle of fallen timbers
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british provided indians with arms and encouraged them to attack intruding americans. army led by general anthony wayne defeated native americans
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Whisky rebellion
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refusal of a group of farmers to pay federal tax on whisky
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public land act
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established orderly procedures for dividing and selling federal lands at reasonable prices
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federalists era
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dominated by two federalists presidents plitical parities began to form around two leading figures
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