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Ch. 8 vocab.
Question | Answer |
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the trail into Kentucky that woodsman Daniel Boone helped to build. | Wilderness Road |
a government in which people elect representatives to govern them. | republic |
a document, adopted by the Continental Congress in 1777 and finally approved in 1781, that outlined the form of government of the new United States. | Articles of Confederation |
a law that established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. | Land Ordinance of 1785 |
territory covered by the Land Ordinance of 1785, which included land that formed the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota. | Northwest Territory |
it described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed and set conditions for settlement and settlers' rights. | Northwest Ordinance |
an uprising of debtridden Massachusetts farmers in 1787. | Shays's Rebellion |
a meeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the Articles of Confederation; resulted in the drafting of the Constitution. | Constitutional Convention |
read more than 100 books to get ready for the Constitutional Convention, well-known politician who wrote The Federalist Papers. | James Madison |
a plan proposed by Edmund Randolph, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, that proposed a government with three branches and a two-house legislature in which representation would be based on a state's population or wealth. | Virginia Plan |
a plan of government proposed at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 that called for a one-house legislature in which each state would have one vote. | New Jersey Plan |
the Constitutional Convention's agreement to establish a two-house national legislature, with all states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house. | Great Compromise |
the Constitutional Convention's agreement to count three-fifths of a state's slaves as population for purposes of representation and taxation. | Three-Fifths Compromise |
a system of government where power is shared among the central (or federal) government and the states. | federalism |
supporters of the Constitution. | Federalists |
a person who opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. | Antifederalists |
a series of essays defending and explaining the Constitution. | The Federalist Papers |
antifederalist delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, most influential Virginian-besides Washington, wouldn't vote/ sign the Constitution until a bill of rights was added, and was at Virginia's convention for this too-ratified-Madison. | George Mason |
the first ten amendments to the U.S Constitution, added in 1791, and consisting of a formal list of citizens' rights and freedoms. | Bill of Rights |