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ch 8 vocab ss
Question | Answer |
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A road the traveled westward over the Appalachian into Kentucky. | Wilderness Road |
A gov. in which the people elect representatives to govern | republic |
the first government of the United States | Articles of Confederation |
Law that set up townships in the Western lands, which became known as the Northwest territory | Land Ordinance of 1785 |
Land that formed the modern states of ohio, indiana, Michigan,illinois,wisconsin, and part of minnesota | Northwest Territory |
law that organized the northwest territory | Northwest Ordinance |
anti-tax protest by farmers | Shays Rebellion |
Meeting in Philadelphia called to change the Articles of Confederation | Constitutional Convention |
One of the leaders of the Constitutional Convention | James Madison |
Plan that called for representation in the legislature to be based on states population or wealth | Virginia Plan |
plan that called for each state to have equal representation in the legislature | New Jersey Plan |
called for a 2 house legislature with the representation based on population in one house and equal representation in the other house | Great Compromise |
called for counting three fifths of the slave population for representation and taxation | Three-fifths Compromise |
a system of gov in which power is shared among the federal gov and states | federalism |
people who supported ratification of the constitution | federalists |
people who opposed ratification of the constitution | antifederalists |
essays that explained and defended the constitution | the federalists papers |
influential virginian who opposed ratification of the constitution | george mason |
set of amendments to the constitution passed to protect individual rights | Bill of Rights |