Chapter 3 Flashcards

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Great Promise

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It was known as the great compromise because each side gave up part of what it wanted in order to benefit all

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Bicameral

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Two house legislature

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Three fifths compromise

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The three fifths compromise counted each slave as three fifths of a person when a states population was calculated

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Ratified

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Approved

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Federalists

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The supporters of the constitution were known as the Federalists because they supported a strong, federal, or national government.

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Anti Federalists

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The opponents of the constitution

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Amendments

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Changes

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Federalism

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The division of power between the states and the federal, or national, government

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Concurrent powers

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Powers shared by the federal and state governments

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Reserved powers

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Powers that the Constitution neither gives to Congress nor denies to the states

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Checks and Balances

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This system gives each branch of government ways to limit the powers of the other two

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Impeach

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Accuse

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