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chapter 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A document,adopted by the continental congress in 1777 and finally approved by the states in 1781 | Articles of confederation |
| The first ten ammendments to the U.S. Constitution Added in 1791,and consisting of a formal list | Bill of rights |
| Ameeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the Articles of confederation | Constitutional Convention |
| Supporters of the Constitution | Federalists |
| The Constitutional Convention's agreement to establish a two house national legislature | Great Compromise |
| It Described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed and set conditions for settlement and settlers rights | Northwest Ordinance |
| 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. | New Jersey plan |
| A law that established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains | Land ordinance of 1785 |
| An uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers in 1787 | Shay's Rebellion |
| A person who opposed the ratification of the U.S. constitution | Antifedralists |
| Territory covered by the land ordinance of 1785 | Northwest territory |
| The Constitutional Convention's agreement to count three-fifths of a state's slaves as population for purposes of representation and taxation | Three-fifths Compromise |
| A plan proposed by Edmund Randolph A delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 | Virginia plan |
| patriot | George mason |
| The best known of the Federalists | The Federalists Paper |
| One of the ablest delegatees | James Madison |