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Chapter 8 Vocab E.L.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the trail into Kentucky that woodsman Daniel Boone hepled to build | Wilderness Road |
| a government in which people elect representatives to govern for them | republic |
| 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 | Articles of Confederation |
| a law that estabilished a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachians | Land Ordinance of 1785 |
| 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 Territory |
| it described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed and set conditions for settlement and settlers' rights | Northwest Ordinance |
| an uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers in 1787 | Shay's Rebellion |
| a meeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the Articles of Confederation; resulted in the drafting of the Constitution | Constitutional Convention |
| James Madison | |
| 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 | Virginia 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 | New Jersey Plan |
| the Constitutional Convention's agreement to estabilish a two-house national legislature, with all states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house | Great Compromise |
| 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 system of government where power is shared among the central government and the states | federalism |
| supporters of the Constitution | Federalists |
| a person opposed the ratification of the Constitution | Antifederalists |
| a series of essays defending and explaining the Constitution | The Federalist papers |
| George Mason | |
| the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, added in 1791, and consisting of a formal list of citizens' rights and freedoms | Bill of Rights |