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Chapter 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wilderness Road | the trail into Kentucky that woodsman Daniel Boone helped to build |
| republic | the people choose the representatives to govern 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 | 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 |
| Shay's Rebellion | an uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers on 1787 |
| Constitutional Convention | meeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the Articles of Confederation; resulted in the drafting of the Constitution |
| James Madison | one of the most important members of the Constitutional Convention and was known for his intelligence and nicknamed as 'the father of the Constitution |
| Virginia Plan | plan proposed by Edmund Randolph, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, that proposed a government with 3 branches and a 2 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 of 1787 that called for a 1 house legislature in which each state would have one vote |
| Great Compromise | the Constitutional Convention's agreement to establish a 2 house national legislature, with all states having equal representation in one house and each states having representation based on its population in the other house |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | g |
| Federalism | a systen of government where power is shared among the central government and the states |
| Federalists | supporters of the Constitution |
| Antifederalists | a person who opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution |
| The Federalists Papers | essays that were against the antifederslists' attacks; included James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay |
| George Mason | a very influential Virginian that opposed the ratification of the Constitution, attended the Constitutional Convention but refused to sign the document |
| Bill of Rights | the first ten amendments in the U.S. Constitution, added in 1791, and consisting of a formal list of citizen's rights and freedom |
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