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ch.8 vocab
ch.8
Question | Answer |
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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 outlawed 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 parts of Minnesota |
Northwest Ordinance | it described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed and set conditions for settlement and settlers’ rights |
Shay’s Rebellion | an uprising 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- | took detailed notes of the Continental Convention’s proceedings, called “Father of the Constitution”, was the best informed man at the debate |
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 on house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house |
Three-Fifths Compromise- | the Constitutional Convention’s agreement to count three-fifths of a state’s slave 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 |
Anti-federalist- | 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 | most influential Virginian aside Washington, against ratification of the Constitution, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, wouldn’t consider voting for the Constitution until a bill of rights was added |
Bill of Rights- | the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, added in 1791, and consisting of a formal list of citizens’ rights and freedoms |