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Chapter 8 Vocab Term

Chapter 8 vocabulary terms

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A trail into Kentucky that Daniel Boone helped build Wilderness Road
A form of government, people choose representatives to govern them Republic
A final plan by the Contiental Congress The national government had few powers A weak government Articles of Confederation
Called for surveyors to stake out six-mile square plots, called townships, in the Western Lands Land Ordinance of 1785
included land that formed the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota, western lands Northwest Territory
1787, described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed Northwest Ordinance
Farmers rebellion against the government They could not pay their taxes Shay's Rebellion
Philadelphia meeting To come up a stronger government Constitutional Convention
Madison, Randolph, and the other Virginia delegates offered a plan for a whole new government met in Virginia Virginia Plan
met in New Jersey with New Jersey delegates called for legislature with only one house similar to the Articles of Confederation New Jersey Plan
delegates selected a committee to work out a compromise in early July some people also refer to it as the Connecticut Compromise Great Compromise
three-fifths of the slave population would be counted when setting direct taxes on the state Three-Fifths Compromise
system of government which the power is shared between the central government and the states Federalism
people supported the Constitution Federalists
people who opposed the Constitution Anti-federalists
federalist essays answer the Anti-federalists attacks The Federalist Papers
most influential Virginian aside from Washington George Mason
ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights
read more than a hundred books on government in preparation for the Constitution Convention James Madison
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