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ch 8 vocab
Question | Answer |
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a road that was to narrow for carts a wagons it became the main road to kentucky. | wilderness road |
people that chose representatives to govern them | republic |
a document adopted by the continental congress in 1777 | articles of confederation |
a law established a plan surveying and selling the federally | land of ordinance of 1785 |
a territory covered by the land ordinance of 1785 | northwest territory |
described how the northwest territory was to be governed | northwest ordinance |
an uprising of debt-ridden massachusetts farmers in 1787 | shays rebellion |
a Philadelphia meeting | constitutional convention |
one of the ablest delegates, and read more than hundred books on government. | james madison |
a new plan for a whole new government | virginia plan |
called for a legislature with only one plan | the new jersey plan |
the constitutional convention agreement to establish a two-house national legislature | great compromise |
three fifths of the slaves population would be counted when setting direct taxes | three fifths compromise |
a system of government in which power is shared between the central | federalism |
people who supported the constitution | federalists |
essays that appeared as letters in the new york newspapers | the federalists papers |
the most influential virginian | george mason |
The ten amendments to the U.S. concstitution | bill of right |