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Ch. 8 vocab kk
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wilderness Road | The trail into Kentucky that woodsman Daniel Boone helped to build. |
| republic | a government in which people elect representatives to govern for them. |
| Articles of Confederation | Document adopted by Continental Congress in 1777 that outlined form of gov't. for new U.S. |
| Land Ordinance of 1785 | law that established a plan for surveying and selling federal lands west of Appalachian Mts. |
| Northwest Territiory | territory covered by Land Ordinance of 1785.Included Ohio,Indiana,Michigan,Illinois,Wisconsin and Minnesota. |
| Northwest Ordinance | Described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed and set conditions for settlement and settlers rights. |
| Shay's Rebellion | An uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers in 1787 |
| Constitutional Convention | meeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the Articles of Confederation, resulting in the drafting of the Constitution. |
| James Madison | One of the ablest delegates at the Constitutional Convention who had read more than 100 books on government for the meeting. |
| Virginia Plan | Plan proposed by Edmund Randolph that proposed a government with 3 branches and a two house legislature in which representation would be based on a state's population or wealth. |
| New Jersey Plan | a plan of government proposed at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 that called for a one-house legislature in which each state would have one vote. |
| Great Compromise | The Constitutional Convention's agreement to establish a two house national legislature, with all states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house. |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | Constitutional Convention agreement to count three fifths of a state's slaves as population for purposes of representation and taxation. |
| federalism | A system of government where power is shared among the central (or federal) government and the states. |
| federalists | supporters of the Constitution. |
| Antifederalists | A person who opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. |
| The Federalist Papers | A series of essays defending and explaining the Constitution. |
| George Mason | The most influential Virginian opposed to ratification of Constitution. He refused to sign final document until a Bill of Rights was added. |
| Bill of Rights | The first 10 ammendments to the U.S. Constitution added in 1791, and consisting of a formal list of citizens' rights and freedoms. |