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Ch.8 Vocab
Ch.8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Wilderness Road | Narrow road for carts or wagons, but it became the main road into Kentucky. |
| Republic | The People choose representatives to govern them. |
| Articles of Confederation | Outlined the form of government of the new united states |
| Land Ordinate of 1785 | Called for Surveyors to stake out six-mile-square plots, called townships, in western lands. |
| Northwest Territory | Lands that formed the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin and part of Minnesota. |
| Northwest ordinate | (1787) How the Northwest territory was to be government. |
| Shays's Rebellion | uprising of debt ridden Massachusetts farmers, in 1787. |
| Constitutional Convention | Meeting were people came together to talk about there government. |
| James Madison | He read more than a hundred books on government in preparation for the meeting. |
| Virginia Plan | A government that would have three branches. |
| New jersey Plan | A legislature with only one house. |
| Great compromise | To Satisfy the smaller states, each state would have an equal number of votes in the senate. |
| Three-Fifths Comprise | Three-fifths of the slave population will be counted when setting direct taxes on the states. |
| Federalism | A system of government in which power is shared between the central government and states. |
| Federalists | The people who supported the constitution. |
| Antifederalists | people who opposed the constitution. |
| The Federalist papers | essays to answer the Antifederalists' attacks |
| George Mason | Opposed to ratifying the constitution |
| Bill of rights | Was the first acts of the new government. |