C.1.5 & 1.8 Vocab

to formally approve

• amend

• anti

• ratify

• ratification

the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

• US Constitution

a series of essays written to encounter and defeat the proposed US Constitution

• Federal System

• Federalist Papers

• Articles of Confederation

• Anti-Federalist Papers

to change in a formal way; to change for the better

• amend

• ratify

• boycott

• abolish

Federal System

• the sharing of power between citizens and the government

• the sharing of power between central and state governments

• the people's right to change or overthrow the government

• contract between the people and states

anti

• full support

• change of opinion

• against, opposite

• government system

Ratification

• in complete agreement

• the process to overthrow the government

• to support and defend

• the process of formally approving something

a series of essays written to explain and defend the proposed US Constitution

• Anti-Federalist Papers

• Federalist Papers

• Social Contract

• Federal System

a group of people in the early US who favored the establishment of a strong government and who worked for the ratification of the US Constitution

• Federalist Papers

• Anti-Federalists

• Federalists

• Anti-Federalist Papers

Anti-federalists

• opposed the ratification of the US Constitution

• favored the ratification of the US Constitution

• opposed Independence from England

• protested the British taxes