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| Uprising of Massachusetts's farmers, led by Daniel Shays, to protest high taxes, heavy debt, and farm forclosures. | |
| People who supported the ratification of the Constitution. | |
| Proposal to create a unicameral government; rejected at the Constitutional Convention. | |
| Agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention establishing that a state's population would determine representation in the lower house of the legislature, while each state | |
| People who were opposed to the ratification of the Constitution. | |
| Legislation passed by Congress to establish a political structure for the lands in the Northwest Territory. | |
| Plan for government in which the national government would have three branches-executive, judicial, and legislative; representation in the legislature would be determined by state. | |
| Agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention that said three fifths of all slaves in each state should be counted as part of the state's population for determining represe | |
| First 10 ammendments to the US Constitution, which were ratified in 1791. | |
| Document approved in 1777 that created a limited central government for the US; was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789. | |
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