Social Studies
Terms
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- Polital Party
- A group of people who hold certain beliefs about how the goverment should be run
- Articles of Confederation
- the document (1777) that governed the U.S. during the revolution and after (1786)
- Cabinet
- A group of advisors to the president
- Bill of Rights
- The first ten amendments to the consitution
- Representative Democracy
- Gov't where the people elect representatives to the federal gov't
- republic
- A goverment in which the power to govern comes from the people, not a king
- Consitution
- a set of laws governing a state or nation
- Bills of Rights
- added to state const. that told the right of state citizens
- Northwest Ordiance
- law passed by congress ( Articlesof Confed.) created Ohio,Indiana,ILLINOIS,Michigan,Wisconsin,Minnesota.No Slavery allowed
- rafity
- to formally approve
- Northwest Territory
- Located North of the Ohio River, East of the Mississippi River, west of Pennsylvania, South of Canada, Great Lakes