US History AP chapter 9
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- Legislation passed by an allliance of Jefferson and the Baptists that disestablished the Anglican church.
- Virginia Statute of Religious
- A type of special assembly, originally developed in Massachusetts, for drawing up a fundamental law that would be superior to ordinary law.
- Constitution Convention
- Legislation that provided for the orderly transformation of western territories into states.
- Northwest Ordinance of 1787
- Wealthy conservatives devoted to republicanism who engineered a nonviolent political transformation.
- Federalists
- The status of a western area under the Northwest Ordinance after it established an organized governments but before it become a state.
- territory
- The officer under the new Constitution who would be commander in chief of the armed forces, appoint judges and other officials, and have the power to
- president
- People given the vote in New Jersey but generally not given equal rights after the Revolution, despite Abigail Adams' urging.
- women
- First of key states where federalists won by a narrow margin, overcoming the opposition of antifederalist Sam Adams.
- Massachusetts
- The opponents of the Constitution who argued against creating such a strong central government.
- antifederalists
- War veteran who led poor farmers in a revolt that failed but had far-reaching consequences.
- Daniel Shays
- Group that failed to block the central government they feared but did force the promise of a bill of rights.
- antifederalists
- Frustrated foreign affairs secretary under the Articles; one of the three authors of The Federalists.
- John Jay
- One-square-mile areas, thirty-six of which composed a township, with one area set aside for the support of schools.
- sections
- Virginia antifederalist leader who thought the Constitution spelled the end of liberty and equality.
- Patrick Henry
- The territory north of the Ohio and est of the Mississippi governed by the acts of 1785 and 1787.
- Old Northwest
- Father of the Constitution and author of Federalist No.10
- James Madison
- The plan proposed by Virginia at the Constitutional Convention for a bicameral legislature with representation based on population.
- large-state plan
- North African leader who preyed on American shipping and took advantage of the weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
- Dey of Algiers
- A failed revolt in 1786 by poor debtor farmers that raised fears of "mobocracy."
- Shay's Rebellion
- The plan proposed by New Jersey for a unicameral legislature with equal representation of states regardless of size and population.
- small-state plan
- Unanimously elected chairman of the secret convention of "demi-gods."
- George Washington
- The only state to allow a direct vote on the Constitution, which it ratified only after it ws known that the new government would go into effect.
- New York
- An exclusive order of military officers that aroused strong democratic opposition.
- society of the cincinnati
- The compromise between North and South that resulted in each slave being counted as 60 percent of a free person for purposes of representation.
- three-fifths compromise
- Young New Yorker who argued eloquently for the Constitution even though he favored a still stronger central government.
- Alexander Hamilton
- A masterly series of pro-Constitution articles printed in New York by Jay, Madison, and Hamilton.
- The Federalists
- Document that was put into effect 1781, then put out of business by the Constitution.
- Articles of Confederation
- A list of guarantees that federalists promised, in order to win ratification, to add to the Constitution.
- bill of rights
- New name for the Anglican church after it was disestablished and de-Anglicized in Virginia and elsewhere.
- Protestant Episcopal Church
- The first constitutional government of the United States.
- Articles of Confederation