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- In late September 1789, Congress agreed on 12 constitutional amendments, only 10 were ratified in 1791. These were generally referred to as what?
- Opponents of the Constitution were known as this
- True or False - Federalists believed that power should be divided between a central government and regional governments
- People who supported a stronger national government
- Plan that called for every 5 enslaved people that 3 be counted as free people for determining both representation and taxes
- This branch, headed by the president, implements and enforces the laws passes by Congress
- Plan that proposed scrapping the Articles of confederation and creating a new national government with the power to make laws binding upon the states and to raise its own money through taxes
- True or False - Prominent Anti-federalists included John Hancock, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, and George Clinton, governor of New York
- What was the name for the Northern Democrats who wanted to make peace with the South?
- Property owners' fears were justified when this rebellion erupted in Massachusetts in 1786
- True or False - Edmund Randolph and George Mason believed the Constitution should not include a Bill of Rights
- Number of the thirteen states that had to ratify the Constitution to put it into effect
- In 1787, Congress passes this ordinance which provided the basis for governing much of the western territory
- Our nation's first form of government gave its national government very few powers. What was our first government's name?
- True or False - Ratify means to approve
- What caused disagreements and hurt the South's unity and weakened its war effort
- A collection of 85 essays that supported the Federalists' arguments in support of the Constitution
- After what union victory did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
- In 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention intended to revise this
- What side offered a bounty to encourage men to volunteer in the army?