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Ch.8 History Vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The trail into Kentucky that woodsman Daniel Boone helped to build | Wilderness Road |
| A government in which people choose representatives to govern for them | republic |
| The first plan for a national government; a 1777 document adopted by the Continental Congress | Articles of Confederation |
| Legislation on surveying western territories west of the Appalachian Mountains into six-square-mile plots | Land Ordinance of 1785 |
| Region northwest of the Ohio River through Wisconsin; Congress divided land into sections and sold them to settlers | Northwest Territory |
| A law that set conditions for the settlement and government of the Northwest Territory | Northwest Ordinance |
| An uprising of debt-ridden farmers in Massachusetts broke out in 1786 increasing the support for strengthening the national government | Shays's Rebellion |
| A meeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the Articles of COnfederation | Constitutional Convention |
| Named "Father of the Constitution" for his contributions to the Constitutional Convention | James Madison |
| A proposed-plan for a national government that called for three branches and a two-house legislature | Virginia Plan |
| A proposed plan of government that called for a one-house legislature, in which each state would have one vote | New Jersey Plan |
| An agreement to establish a two-house legislature with different forms of representation | Great Compromise |
| An agreement to count three-fifths of the slave population for determining representation and taxation | Three-Fifths Compromise |
| A system of government in which power is shared between the central government and the states | federalism |
| People in favor of the Constitution; believed in shared power between national and state governments | Federalists |
| People who opposed the Constitution; feared powerful national government and loss of states' rights | Antifederalists |
| A set of essays that appeared in New York newspapers written in support of the Consitution | The Federalist Papers |
| A Virginia delegate who refused to vote for ratification of the Constitution until a bill of rights was added | George Mason |
| The first ten amendments to the Constitution that consist of a formal list of citizens' rights and freedoms helping to protect citizens from the powers of the national government | Bill of Rights |
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