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Chapter 8 vocab.
Study stacks for chapter 8
| Termaa | Definition |
|---|---|
| wilderness road | the trail into Kentucky that woodsman Daniel Boone helped build |
| republic | a goverment in which people elect representatives to govern for them |
| Articles of Confederation | a document, adopted by the continental congress in 1777 & finally approved by the states in 1781, that outlined th form of govermnt of the united states |
| Land of ordiance of 1758 | a law that establishd a planfor suveying & selling the federally owned lands west of the appalachin Mountians |
| northwest ordiance | it described how the northwest territory was to be governed & set conditions for settlements & settlers' right's |
| shay's rebellion | an uprising of debtridden Massachusetts farmer's in 1787 |
| constitutional convention | a meeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the article of confederation; resutlted in the drafting of the constitution read more than 100 books on goverment in preparation James Madison for the meeting |
| Virgina plan | a plan peoposed by Edmund Randolph, a delgate to the constitution convention in 1787 that called for braches & two-house legislature in which representation would be based on a state's populatio or wealth |
| New jersey plan | a plan of goverment proposal at the constitutional convention in 1787 that called for a one-house legislature in which each state would have 1 vote |
| Great Compromise | the constitutional convention's agreemet to established a 2-house national legislature, withall state's having equal representation in 1 house & each state bassed on it's population in the other house |
| three-fifths compromise | the constitutional convention's agreement to court three-fifths of a state's slaves as population for purposes of representation & taxation |
| federalism | a system goverment where power is shared among the cenralized, nationalistic goverment headed bya powerful dictator |
| federalists | supporters of the constitution |
| antiferderalists | a person who opposed the ratification of the U.S. constitution |
| the federalists papers | a seris of essays defending & explaining the constitution |
| George Madison | perhaps the most influential Virgian aside from Washington, also was opposed to it |
| Bill of Rights | the 1st 10 ammendments to the U.S. constitution, added in 1791, & consisted of a formsl list of citizens' rights & freedoms |
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