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Chapter 8 Vocab Link
Chapter 8 Vocabulary for Ms Link
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the main road into Kentucky that was too small for wagons and carts, made partly by Daniel Boone | Wilderness Road |
| a form of government in which people choose representatives to govern them | Republicanism |
| articles in which the national government have few powers and was run by a confederation congress | Articles of Confederation |
| called for Surveyors to stake out 6 mile square plots in the Mid-West | Land Ordinance of 1785 |
| land that surveyors claimed, 6 mile square plots in the Mid-West | North-West Territory |
| described how the North-West Territory was to be governed | North-West Ordinance |
| uprising when Daniel Shays attacked the federal arsenal but was quickly silenced | Shays Rebellion |
| Philadelphia meeting where many of the group were members of the Continental Congress | Constitutional Convention |
| one of the ablest delegates at the Constitutional Convention | James Madison |
| plan which proposed that the Government would have 3 branches: legislative, judicial and executive | Virginia Plan |
| called for Legislature with only one house, each state getting a vote | New Jersey Plan |
| Smallest states get equal votes in Senate, larger states get more representation in House of Representatives | The Great Compromise |
| 3/5 of the slave population when setting tax on states | 3/5 Compromise |
| a system of government in which power shared between central government and the states | Federalism |
| people who supported the Constitution | Federalists |
| people who opposed the Constitution | Anti-Federalists |
| the best know of the Federalist essays | The Federalist Papers |
| the most influential Virginian aside from Washington | George Mason |
| the ten amendments to the US constitution | Bill of Rights |