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ch. 8 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a trail into kentucky that daniel boone helpred build | wilderness road |
| people choose representives to govern them | republic |
| national gov. has few powers beacuse americans were afriad that a strong gov. would lead to tyranny | articles of conrederation |
| surveyors to stake out six mile square plots, called townships, in the western lands | land ordianace |
| land thatformed the states ohio,indiana,michigan,illinois,and wisconsin | northwest territory |
| described how the north west territory was to be governed | northwest ordianace |
| uprising came to be known, the farmers won the sympathy of many people | shays's rebellion |
| philadelphia meeting | constitutional convention |
| ablest delegates | james madison |
| plan for a whole new gov. | virgina plan |
| called for a legislature with only one house | new jersy plan |
| delegates selected a committe to work out a compromise | great compromise |
| three-fifths of the slave population would be counted when setting direct taxes on the states | Three-fifths compromise |
| a system of gov. in which power is shared between the central gov. and the states | federalism |
| people who opposed the constutution | antifederalists |
| federalist wrote essays to answer antifederalists attacks | the federalists papers |
| most inflential virginian also opposed to it | george mason |
| ten amendments to the U.S. constitution | bill of rights |
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