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Chapter 8 Vocab Link
Chapter 8 Vocabulary for Ms Link
Question | Answer |
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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 |