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chapter 8 vocab

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Wilderness Road The trail into kentucky that woodsman daniel boone helped build
Repulic a government in which people elect representatives to govern them
Articles of Confederation a document, adopted by the continental congress in 1777, and approved by the state in 1781
Land Ordinance of 1785 a law that established a plan for surveying and selling the feds. owned land west of the app. mountains
Northwest territory territory covered by the Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance it described how the northwest territory was to be governed
Shays's Rebellion an uprising of debt ridden masschussetts farmers in 1787
Constitutional Convention a meeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the Articles of Confederation
James Madison was one of the ablest delegates
Virgina Plan a plan that proposed a government with 3 branches and a two-house legislature which representation be based on the states wealth or population
New Jersery Plan a plan that proposed a government with a one-house legislature which each state would have one vote
Great Compromise The Constitutional Convention's agreement to establish a two-house national legislature
Three-Fifths Compromise The Constitutional Convention's agreement to count three-fifths of a states slaves as population for purposes of representation and taxation
Federalism a government where power is shared among the central (or federal) government and the states
Federalists supporters of the constitution
Antifederalists a person who opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution
The Federalists papers a series of essays defendingand explaining the Constitution
George Mason was one of the delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
Bill of Rights the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution
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