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Chapter 8 Vocab-S.S.
| 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 | A document, adopted by the Continental Congress in 1777 and finally approved by the states in 1781, that outlined the form of government of the new United States. |
| Land Ordinance of 1785 | A law that established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. |
| Northwest Territory | A territory covered by the Land Ordinance of 1785, which included land that formed the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota. |
| Northwest Ordinance | It described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed and set conditions for settlement and settler's rights. |
| Shays's Rebellion | An upraising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers in 1787. |
| Constitutional Convention | A meeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the Articles of Confederation; resulted in the drafting of the Constitution. |
| James Madison | One of the ablest delegates of the Constitutional Convention who, in preparation for the convention, read over one hundred books on government. |
| Virginia Plan | A plan proposed by Edmund Randolph, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, that proposed a government with three 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 in its population in the other house. |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | The Constitutional Convention's agreement to count three-fifths of the 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 | Perhaps the most influential Virginian aside from Washington who was opposed to the ratification of the Constitution. He had been a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, but he had refused to sign the final document. |
| Bill of Rights | The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, added in 1791, and consisting of a formal list of citizen's rights and freedoms. |
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