Unit 5 Vocab

First government of the United States

• Articles of Confederation

• Debt

• Shay's Rebellion

• Welfare

something owed; such as money

• Union

• Domestic

• Federalist

• Debt

an event when 2,000 Massachusetts farmers rebelled against land foreclosures and debt from the Revolutionary War

• Ratification

• Shay's Rebellion

• Ordain

Well-being

• Union

• Welfare

• Ordain

• Preamble

to establish something by law

• Anti-Federalist

• Domestic

• Ordain

• Welfare

Future Generations

• Federalist Papers

• Domestic

• Posterity

• Tranquility

Process of formally approving something; ratification of U.S. Constitution

• Shay's Rebellion

• Ratification

• Federalist Papers

• Preamble

People who favored the establishment of a strong national government and who worked for ratification of the U.S. Constitution

• Posterity

• Shay's Rebellion

• Anti-Federalists

• Federalists

People who opposed ratification of the U.S. Constitution because they feared a strong national government and a lack of protection for individual rights

• Posterity

• Federalist Papers

• Federalists

• Anti-Federalists

Series of essays written to explain and defend the proposed U.S. Constitution. (Anti-Federalist papers opposed the constitution)

• Preamble

• Federalist Papers

• Union

• Debt