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ch 8 vocab!
Question | Answer |
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a thin road that lead into kuntuky | wilderness road |
the people choose the representative to govern them | republic |
a basic government plan that gave the government very little power | articles of confedration |
called surveyors to stake out six mile square plots | land ordinance of 1785 |
the land created by the land ordinance of 1785 includes ohio indiana michigan illinois and wisconsin and minnesota | northwest territory |
stated how the northwest terriotry was to be governed | northwest ordinance |
an uprising of farmers about taxes | shays's rebellion |
a meeting of 55 delegates that discussed how the government was to work | constiutional convention |
a very important person at the constitutional congress the "father of the constitution" | james madison |
a government plan with 2 houses and reprsentatives based on population favored larger states | virginia plan |
a government plan that had 1 house and each state would have one vote in senate favored smaller states | new jersy plan |
a final government plan that had 2 houses and representation based on population and one vote per state in senate | great compromise |
3/5ths of the slave population would be counted for population and taxation | three-fifths compromise |
a system of government that shares power between a central government and the states | federalism |
people who supported the constitution | federalists |
people who opposed the constitution | antifederalists |
the best know federalist essays | the federalist papers |
the most influential virginain that was an antifederalist | george mason |
the first ten amendments of the constitution | bill of rights |