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1
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written constitution that stated as law what the Continental Congress was already doing in fact

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Articles of Confederation

2
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chief American negotiator of the Peace Paris

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John Jay

3
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formally ended the War for American Indepence

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Treaty of Paris

4
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provided a way to govern lands bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and the great Lakes while they were growing from territory to statehood

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Northwest Ordinance

5
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marked the 1st time an American court ruled a law unconstitutional

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Trevett v. Weeden

6
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Lent prestige to the Constitutional Convention because of his long and distinguished career

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Benjamin Franklin

7
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presided over the Constitutional Convention

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George Washington

8
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did most of the writing among the younger men of the Constitutional Convention

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James Madison

9
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delagates had been authorized by their state legislatures only to try to patch up the Articles of Confederation but they delegates elected a chairman and drafted the US Constitution

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Constitutional Convention

10
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feeling of national identity and pride

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Nationalism

11
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resolved the differences between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan

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Great Compromise

12
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compromise that allowed slaves to be counted in determining the number of representatives a state could have in Congress

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Three-fifths Compromise

13
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Branch of government charged with carrying out laws

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Executive branch

14
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Law making branch of government

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Legislative branch

15
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Branch of government charged with interpreting and enforcing laws

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Judicial branch

16
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System of which each branch of the federal government

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Checks and balances

17
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state conventions to ratify the constitution

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Ratifying Conventions

18
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idea that the US government has certain powers and state governments have certian other powers

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Federalism

19
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Co-author of the Federalist Papers; he led the Federalists at the New York ratifying convention

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Alexander Hamilton

20
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series of newspaper articles that explained and defended the new constitution

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Federalist Papers