Unit 3a Vocabulary

A system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches.

• Preamble

• Preside

• Interstate Commerce

• Check and Balances

The first ten amendments; purpose is to protect individual rights.

• Great Compromise

• Bill of Rights

• Chief Executive

• Federalist

Trade that occurs between states

• Interstate Commerce

• Shays Rebellion

• Anti-Federalist

• Separation of Powers

A series of attacks on courthouses by a small band of farmers to block closures of their farms.

• Federalism

• Preamble

• Shays Rebellion

• Preside

Constitutional division of powers among the branches of government.

• Federalists

• Separation of Powers

• Chief Executive

• Preamble

Supported states' rights and demanded a Bill of Rights to the Constitution

• Federalists

• Federalism

• Chief Executive

• Anti-Federalists

An official presiding over the government.

• Preside

• Chief Executive

• Federalist

• Preamble

Compromise made by Constitutional Convention in which states would have equal representation in one house and population based representation in the other house.

• Great Compromise

• Shays Rebellion

• Bill of Rights

• Checks and Balances

Lists the purposes for the government.

• Preside

• Interstate Commerce

• Preamble

• Separation of Powers

Division of power between the federal government and the states

• Federalist

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Separation of Powers