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Ch 8 Vocab MR
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This road was helped built by Daniel Boone and was the main road into Kentucky. Many didn't like it because it was too narrow for carts or wagons, but Kentucky's rich river valleys anf few Native American made it worth it. | Wilderness Road |
| A form of government where the people choose representives to govern them. | Republic |
| The first plan on how to govern the United States; The states had most of the power. | Articles of Confederation. |
| This called for surveyors to stake out six-mile-square plots, called townships, in the Western lands. | Land of Ordinance of 1785 |
| The lands grapher in the Land of Ordinance of 1785 were later called _____________ | Northwest Territory |
| This described how the Northeast Territory was governed. | Northwest Ordinance |
| An uprising where farmers in debt marched on a federal arsenal. | Shay's Rebellion |
| 55 delagets met at this convention to discuss needed changes to the Articles. | Constitutional Convention |
| One of the ablest delagets, who in preparation read more that 100 books before coming to the convention. | James Madison |
| This plan was proposed by the Virgina delagates and this plan stated that the government have three branches. | Virginia Plan |
| A New Jersy delagate wrote this plan that said that each state would only have one vote, and it was similar to the Articles. | New Jersy Plan |
| This said that in the Senate each state would have a vote but in the House of Represnatives the vote would be basied on the population. | Great Compromise |
| This compromise said wheather slaves would count for the population in the southern states. | Three-Fifths Compromise |
| A system of government in which power is shared between the central government and the states. | Federalism |
| Peopel who supported the constittion were called this. | Federalists |
| Essays that apperaed in New York newspapers that stated why the constiution was nessary. | The Federalist papers |
| 2nd most influential Virginian who fought agaisnts the ratifment of the constution. | George Mason |
| The ten admentments that were added to the constution that were later called this. | Bill of Rights |
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