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- The first to approve the Constitution
- Pennsylvania
- A period when economic activity slowed and unemployment increased
- depression
- The most distinctive feature of the US government
- separation of powers
- America's first constitution
- Articles of Confederation
- The book of essays explaining and supportin th Constitution
- Bill of Rigths
- Protects individual rights
- Bill of Rights
- Type of legislatures that most states established
- bicameral
- What caused the financial crisis after the Revolutionary War
- Great Depression
- Movement that infuenced the Constitution's architects
- Enlightenment
- Branch of the federal government that has the power to reject the appointment of judges
- Legislative branch
- The way the president can check Congress
- veto
- Was used to count each enslaved person as three-fifths of a free person
- Three-fifths Compromise
- Presidential electors
- Electoral College
- The law that helped stop the spread of slavery to the West
- Northwest Ordinance
- Movement of angry farmers
- Shay's Rebellion
- Product of "grand committee"
- Great Compomise
- Articles of Confederation
- created the Confederation Congress
- Was one of two states that kept its colonial charter as its constitution
- Rhode Island