Quakers

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Quakers

• Organized the first antislavery society

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Articles of Confederation

• Created a one-house legislature

3
James Madison

• Authored the Virginia Plan

4
Popular sovereignty

• Ideal that was an important part of early state
  constitutions

5
Checks and balances

• System where the three branches of government
  limit the powers of the others

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Northwest Territory

• Lands north of the Ohio River and east of the
  Mississippi River

7
Anti federalists

• Feared oppression more than disorder

8
depression

• A period when economic activity slows and
  unemployment increases

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manumission

• Freeing of individual slaves

10
Enlightenment

• Promoted knowledge, reason and science as way to
  improve society

11
Gouverneur Morris

• Wrote the final draft of the U.S. constitution

12
Ohio

• First state from the Northwest Territory admitted
  to the union

13
John Locke

• Believed all people have rights to life, liberty,
  and property

14
Robert Morris

• A merchant who headed a department of finance

15
Federalists

• Supporters of the Constitution

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Three-Fifths Compromise

• Counted 5 enslave people as 3 free persons for
  purposes of representation and taxation

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Daniel Shays

• Led a rebellion of farmers in Massachusetts in
  1786

18
Legislative branch

• Lawmaking branch of the government

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Articles of Confederation

• Created a national government with limited
  authority

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Bill of Rights

• Not included in the Constitution until after it
  was ratified