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Chapter 8 Vocab
vocabulary words in chapter 8 for social studies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Wilderness Road | A trail into Kentucky built by Daniel Boone. became the main road into Kentucky |
| republic | A form of government where the people get to choose the representatives to govern them. |
| Articles of Confederation | The final plan:The national government had few powers, for many Americans were afraid that a strong government would lead to tyranny, or oppressive rule. |
| Land Ordinance of 1785 | called for surveyors to stake out six-mile-square plots, called townships, in the western land. |
| Northwest Territory | the land that formed the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota. |
| Northwest Ordinance | Described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed |
| Shays's Rebellion | an uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers in 1787 |
| Constitutional Convention | 55 delegates at the Philadelphia meeting. |
| James Madison | one of the ablest delegates. |
| Virginia Plan | A plan proposed to 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. |
| New Jersey 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. |
| Great Compromise | 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. |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | The Constitutional Convention's agreement to count three-fifths of a state's slaves as population for purposes of representation and taxation. |
| federalism | A system of government on which power is shared between the central(or federal) government and the states |
| federalist | People who supported the Constitution |
| Antifederalists | People who apposed the Constitution |
| The Federalist Paper | essays written by federalists to answer the antifederalists' attacks; later, these letters were publisher=d as the book called the "The Federalist" |
| George Mason | perhaps the most influential Virginian aside from Washington |
| Bill of Rights | The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, added in 1791, and consisting of a formal list of citizens' rights and freedom. |
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