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Chapter 8 vocab.
vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wilderness Road | the trail onto Kentucky that Daniel Boone help build. |
| Republic | a goverment in which people elect represenatives to go govern for themselves. |
| Articles of Confederation | a document that got approved by the states in 1787 and outlined the northwest territory. |
| Land Ordinance of 1785 | a law that established a plan for survey & selling the federally owned lands in the west. |
| Northwest Territory | territory covered by the Land Ordinance of 1785. |
| Northwest Ordinance | descibed how the territory was going to be governed. |
| Shay's Rebellion | an uprising of debtridden Massachusetts farmers in 1787. |
| Constitutional Convention | meeting held in 1787 to consider changes in to the Articles pf Confederation. |
| James Madison | one of the ablest delegates; read more than a hundred government books before the meeting. |
| Virginia Plan | in 1787 it proposed a government with 3 branches, two-house legislature in state's pop. or wealth. |
| New Jersey Plan | made every states vote, it was similar to the Articles of Confederation |
| Great Comprimise | to satisfy smaller states, all states had to have the same number of votes to the senator. |
| Three-Fifths Comprimise | three-fifths of the slves pop. would be counted when setting direct taxes on the state. |
| Federalism | system of government in which power is shared between the central gov. and states. |
| Federalist | people who supported the Constitution. |
| The Federalist paper | Federalist wrote essays to answer Antifederalists' attacks. |
| George Mason | the mostv influential Virginian aside from Washington. |
| Bill of Rights | added in 1791 & consisting of a formal list of citizens' rights and freedom. |