Question | Answer |
trail into Kentucky/Daniel Bone helped build/was not easy to travel | Wilderness Road |
form of government where the people choose representatives to govern them | republic |
the national government had few powers-the power to sign treaties, wage war, make peace, and issue money/each state had only one vote in congress | Articles of Confederation |
called for surveyors to take out six-mile-square plots,called townships, in the Western lands | Land Ordinance of 1785 |
the lands described in the Land Ordinance of 1785 became known as this | Northwest Territory |
(1787) described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed | Northwest Ordinance |
farmers in Massachusetts rebelled against taxes/lead by Daniel Shays | Shay's Rebellion |
met in Philadelphia/ came up the Virginia plan | Constitutional Convention |
attended the constitutional convention/ had read over 100 books to prepare for the meeting | James Madison |
proposed a plan of a government with three branches | Virginia Plan |
called for legislature with only one house | New Jersey Plan |
each state would have an equal number of votes in the Senate/representation in the House of Representatives according to state populations | Great Compromise |
three fifths of the slave population would be counted when setting direct taxes on the states | Three-Fifths Compromise |
a system of government in which power is shared between the central government and the states | federalism |
people who supported the constitution | Federalists |
people who opposed the constitution | Anti-federalists |
essays written to answer the antifederalists' attacks on the constitution | The federalist papers |
opposed the constitution unless they added a Bill of Rights | George Mason |
the ten amendments and the begining of the constitution | Bill of Rights |