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Ch.8 Vocab
Social Study
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The trail into Kentucky that Daniel Boon helped build. | Wilderness Road |
| The people choose representatives to govern them. | Republic |
| The continental Congress eventualy arrived at a final plan. | Articles of Confederation |
| It called for surveyors to stake out six-mile-square plots, called townships, in the Western Lands. | Land Ordinance of 1785 |
| Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin and part of Minnesota. | Norhwest Territory |
| It discribed how the Northwest Terrritory was to be governed. | Northwest Ordinence |
| In January 1787, Shays and his men marced on a federal arsenal, a place to store weapons. | Shays's Rebellion |
| The Philadelphia meeting became know, were a very impressive group. | Constitutional Convention |
| One of the ablest delegates. | James Madison |
| Madison, Randolph, and the other Virginia delegates had drawn up the plan while they waited for the convention to open. | Virginia Plan |
| A legislative with only one house. | New Jersey Plan |
| The constitutional Conventions agreement to extablish a two-house national legislature. | Great Compromise |
| Three, fifths of the slave population would be counted when setting direct taxes on the states. | Three-Fifts Compromise |
| A system of government in which power is shared between the cental(or federal) government and the states. | Federalism |
| The people who supportedthe constitution took the name (blank). | Federalists |
| People who opposedthe constitution. | Aftifederalists |
| These essays first appered as letters in New York newspaper. | The Federalist papers |
| He perhaps the most influential Virginian aside from Washington, also was opposed to it. | George Mason |
| One of the first acts of the New government. | Bill of Rights |