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Chapter 8 Vocab.JH:)
Question | Answer |
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A trail helped built by Daniel Boone that went into Kentucky. Wasn't easy to travel. | Wilderness Road |
When the people choose representatives to govern them. | republic |
The national government had few powers, because many AMericans were afraid that a strong government would lead to tyranny, or oppressive rule. | Articles of Confederation |
This called for surveyors to stake out six-mile-square plots, called townships, in the western lands. | Land of Ordinance of 1785 |
The western lands later became known as this. | Northwest Territory |
This decribed how the Northwest Territory was to be governed. | Northwest Ordinance |
This rebellion later became known as an uprising. | Shays's Rebellion |
When 55 delagates met in Philadelphia. | Constitutional Convention |
Was a delagate at the Constitutional Convention. | James Madison |
This proposed that a government would have three branches. | Virgina Plan |
This was a plan where a legislature had only one house. | New Jersey Plan |
To satisfy the smaller states, each state would have an equal number of votes in the senate. | Great Compromise |
Under this compromise, three-fifths of the slave population would be counted when setting direct taxes on the states. | Three-Fifths Compromise |
A system of government in which power is shared between the central(or federal) government and the states. | federalism |
The people that supported the Constitution. | Federalists |
The people who opposed the Constitution | Antifederalists |
A Federalist essay in New York. | The Federalists Papers |
One of the most influential Virgian aside George Washington, also was opposed to radification. | George Mason |
The 10 ammendments made to the U.S Constitution. | Bill of Rights |