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Humz vocab
Chpt. 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wilderness road | A rd that cut threw the Appalachian mts. to kentucky |
| Republic | A place where people choose representatives to govern them |
| Articles of Confederation | In this plan the national government had few powers |
| Land ordinance of 1785 | Called for surveyors to stake out six-mile-square plots called townships in the western land |
| Northwest territory | The six-mile-square plots in the west later became know as Northwest territory |
| Northwest ordinance | This described how the Northwest territory was to be governed |
| Shays rebellion | A farmers rebellion started due to taxes and large debts. |
| Constitutional Convention | 55 delegates sent to Philadelphia, half were lawyers others were merchants, doctors and planters. Went there to discuss how to form a government |
| James Madison | Had the greatest contribution to the constitutional convention his notes are the most detailed picture we have of the debates |
| Virginia Plan | Virginian delegates Madison, Randolph and others put together a plane for a government while they waited for the convention to start |
| New Jersey Plan | This plan called for a legislature with only one house, in it each state would only have one vote. |
| Great Comprise | Delegates could not agree which plan to take so they made the Great Comprise which made the smaller states happy because they would have a equal vote. |
| Three Fifths Comprise | This was the plan that said that for southern states only three fifths of slave counted as the population |
| Federalism | Is a system or government in which power is shared between the national government and the states |
| Federalists | The people who supported the constitution where called federalists |
| Antifederalists | People who opposed the constitution |
| The federalists papers | Federalists wrote papers to answer antifederalists attacks, this is the best known of the papers |
| George Mason | He was a antifederalist who believed that a bill of rights needed to be added to the constitution, legislative branch to have less power |
| Bill of Rights | in 1791 10 amendments were created these were called the bill of rights |
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