Topic 3 Vocabulary

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Constitution

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A detailed, written plan for government.

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Implement

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To apply or enforce.

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Confederation

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A group of individual state governments that unite for a common purpose.

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Articles of Confederation

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The first constitution of the United States.

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Ordinance

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A law, usually of a city or country.

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Ordinance of 1785

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A law that set up a plan for surveying western lands.

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Northwest Ordinance

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A 1787 law that set up a government for the Northwest Territory and a plan for admitting new states into the Union.

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Impact

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An effect.

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Shays’s Rebellion

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An uprising of Massachusetts farmers who did not want to lose their farms because of debt caused by heavy state taxes after the American Revolution.

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Constitutional Convention

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Meeting of delegates in 1787 that led to the writing of the U.S. Constitution.