Chapter 5 Forming a Government

document signed by King John in 1215, made the king subject to law

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Magna Carta
• Bill of Rights
• Declaration of Independence

a set of basic principles and laws that states the powers and duties of the government

• depression

• executive branch

• federalist

• constitution

declared that no person could be forced to attend a particular church or be required to pay for a church with tax money

• Constitution

• interstate commerce

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• Virginia Plan

Which means " The right to vote"

• suffrage

• legislative branch

• anti-federalist

• amendments

Congress would become the single branch of the national government, but it would have limited powers in order to protect the liberties of the people

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• Virginia statute of Religious Freedoms

• amendments

• Articles of Confederation

Word meaning "Official Approval"

• ratification

• executive branch

• suffrage

• tariffs

set up a system for surveying and dividing western lands

• Virginia Plan

• Interstate commerce

• constitution

• Land Ordinance of 1785

ordinance that established the Northwest Territory

• Federalist

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Constitution

• Articles of confederation

included areas that are now in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin

• Midwest Agreement

• Northwest Territory

• Federalist pact

• The great compromise

Taxes on imports or exports

• Gold/ Silver

• tariffs

• Depression

• Inflation