A Definition of Primogeniture and Confederation
Primogeniture: The laws of primogeniture state that only the eldest sons were eligible to inherit land from parents.
Federation: A strong central government in which power is shared between state and central government.
Checks and Balances: Precautions used in the creation of all 3 branches of government, each branch has a unique power of sorts.
“Mobocracy”: Poor landless rabble being able to vote and decide the fate of the country.
Popular sovereignty: The people rule the government.
Confederation: A weak central government, weak gathering of strong individual states.
Constitutional convention: Congress called for the states to send delegates to Philadelphia to amend the Articles of Confederation.
Society of Cincinnati: A society established by former officers of the Revolutionary war as a sort of aristocracy in which traditionalism and social status was important.
“Great Compromise”: Compromise in which the larger states were conceded representation by population in the House of Representatives, and the smaller states were appeased by the equal representation in the Senate.
Land Ordinance of 1785: Provided that the acreage of the Old Northwest should be sold and that the proceeds should be used to help pay off the national debt.
“Three-Fifths-Compromise”: Determined that each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of apportioning taxes and representation.
Northwest Ordinance of 1787: Created a policy for administering the Northwest Territories. It included a path to statehood and forbade the expansion of slavery into the territories.
Antifederalists: Opposed a strong central government, skeptical about undemocratic tendencies in the Constitution.
Shays’s Rebellion: A rebellion by debtor farmers in western Massachusetts, led by Revolutionary War Captain Daniel Shays, against Boston creditors.
“The Federalist”: A series of newspaper articles written by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton, the Federalist Papers
Federation: A strong central government in which power is shared between state and central government.
Checks and Balances: Precautions used in the creation of all 3 branches of government, each branch has a unique power of sorts.
“Mobocracy”: Poor landless rabble being able to vote and decide the fate of the country.
Popular sovereignty: The people rule the government.
Confederation: A weak central government, weak gathering of strong individual states.
Constitutional convention: Congress called for the states to send delegates to Philadelphia to amend the Articles of Confederation.
Society of Cincinnati: A society established by former officers of the Revolutionary war as a sort of aristocracy in which traditionalism and social status was important.
“Great Compromise”: Compromise in which the larger states were conceded representation by population in the House of Representatives, and the smaller states were appeased by the equal representation in the Senate.
Land Ordinance of 1785: Provided that the acreage of the Old Northwest should be sold and that the proceeds should be used to help pay off the national debt.
“Three-Fifths-Compromise”: Determined that each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of apportioning taxes and representation.
Northwest Ordinance of 1787: Created a policy for administering the Northwest Territories. It included a path to statehood and forbade the expansion of slavery into the territories.
Antifederalists: Opposed a strong central government, skeptical about undemocratic tendencies in the Constitution.
Shays’s Rebellion: A rebellion by debtor farmers in western Massachusetts, led by Revolutionary War Captain Daniel Shays, against Boston creditors.
“The Federalist”: A series of newspaper articles written by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton, the Federalist Papers