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chp 8 vocab js
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| wilderness road | a trail that goes into kentucky |
| republic | where people choose who governs them |
| articles of confederation | a document adopted by the continental congress in 1777 |
| land ordinance of 1785 | a law that estlabished a plan to for surveying and selling the federal land |
| northwest terriorty | this land also includes ohio indiana michigan illionious and wiscon |
| northwest oridiance | was described how the northwest terriorty was governed |
| shays's reellion | the farmers won the sympathy of many people |
| constutitional convection | was the philadelphia meeting became to be known |
| james madison | hes one of the ablest delgates |
| virginia plan | delegates began to work of desiging a new government |
| new jersey plan | called for a legastive with only one house |
| great comprise | each state would have the same # of voters |
| three-fiths comprise | 3/5 of the slave poppulation would be counted when setting taxes on the states |
| federalism | is a system of government in which power is shared between the central |
| federalists | people who supported the constutition |
| antifederalists | people who opposed the constutition |
| the federalists papers | the federalists wrote essays to them |
| george mason | was the most influential virgian aside from washington, alsoopposed to it |