Chapter 8
Official changes,
corrections, or
additions to a law or
the Constitution.
Formal approval.
Distribution of
governmental power
between a central
authority and the
states or provinces
that make up the
nation.
Fundamental rights,
such as religious
liberty and equality
before the law.
People who lend
money.
Taxes on imports or
exports.
A set of basic
principles that
determines the
powers and duties of
a government.
Trade that is
conducted between
states.
Support for a type of
government in which
representatives are
elected and in which
the people hold the
political power.
Decision made at the
Constitutional
Convention that
settled the issued of
how the states would
be represented in
Congress.
Document that
created the first
central government
for the United States.
System established
Uprising of
by the framers of the
Massachusetts farmers
Constitution to
led by Daniel Shays
prevent any branch
to protest high taxes,
of government from
heavy debts and
becoming too
farm foreclosures.
powerful.
Steep drop in
economic activity
combined with rising
unemployment.
Series of essays that
defended the
Constitution and tried
to reassure Americans
that the states would
not be overpowered
by the proposed
national government.
WORD BANK: amendments, Articles of Confederation, checks and balances, creditors, constitution, depression,
federalism, Federalist Papers, Great Compromise, interstate commerce, natural rights, ratification, republicanism,
Shays’s Rebellion, tariffs
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WORD BANK: amendments, Articles of Confederation, checks and balances, creditors, constitution, depression,
federalism, Federalist Papers, Great Compromise, interstate commerce, natural rights, ratification, republicanism,
Shays’s Rebellion, tariffs