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__**Articles of Confederation-**__ The Articals of Confederation was an agreemant that the 13 coloneis legaly establish to have a better goverment which was also our first plan of goverment.
==__**Responsibilities of Congress under the Articals of Confederation-**__Congress could: Declare war,To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces,To borrow money on the credit of the United States.==

==__**North West Ordiance-**__ The North West Ordiance was an act of the second Continental Congress passed july 13 1787 to charter a new goverment for the NorthWest territory and addmit new territoery to the Union.==

==**__Annapolis Convention of 1786-__**The Annapolis Convention was a meeting in 1786 at Annapolis Maryland of 12 Delegates from five states (NewJersy, NewYork, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Verginia)to have a constitutional convention called by Virginia to discuss a uniform regulation of commerce.==

__**Federal system of Goverment-**__ The Fedral system of Goverment is where the governmental power is divided between the Federal, State and local governments. They each keep some powers.
==__**The 3/5 Compromise-**__ The 3/5 compromise is about the North thinks that slaves should __NOT__ be counted for the House of Representatives, but the south thinks completely different, so they decided they they would count slaves 3/5ths of a real person.==

__**How do we figure out how many representatives there are?-**__ There could be up to 53 Representatives in each state so there are 435 Representatives over all.
==__**What are the respnsibilities of each branch of Goverment?-**__ There are 3 branche of Goverment: __**Juditial,Legislative, and executive.**__ The Juditial branch decids if a law is working fairly, the leader of the Juditial branch is the Supreme Court. The Legislative branch makes laws, the leader of the Legislative branches leader is Congress. The Executive branch carries out the laws when Congress makes the law, the leader of the Executive branch is the President.==

==**__Describe the Great Compromise-__** Verginia has more people than New Jersy(more people=more votes for laws) so New Jersy got mad so they were fighting about it and they said "all laws must start in the House of Representatives"==

**__Describe the 3/5 Compromise-__** The Great Compromise was about the North and the South fighting over slave trade and said that a slave counts as 3/5 of a person.
==**__Describe the Slave Trade Compromise__**- The Slave Trade Compromise was about The North-(more slaves) saying congress should be able to make laws about the slave trade, but the South(fewer slaves) thinks congress should not be able to make laws for slave trade. Compromise- Congress could make laws for slave trade but not for at least 20 years.==

==**__Under the constitution- What powers do the states have, what powers does the federal system have and what do they share-__** Driving, Taxes, Set court system, Make an Army, Declar War, Marriage & Divorce, Set up Public Schools, Admit New States.==

Legislative- Congress
==**__System of Cheks and Balances-__** Cheks and Balances is where if a branch of goverment gets to powerful, another branch can chek the other branch back by declining or rejecting what the to powerfuls act was.==