Question | Answer |
The trail into Kentucky that Daniel Boon helped build. | Wilderness Road |
The people choose representatives to govern them. | Republic |
The continental Congress eventualy arrived at a final plan. | Articles of Confederation |
It called for surveyors to stake out six-mile-square plots, called townships, in the Western Lands. | Land Ordinance of 1785 |
Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin and part of Minnesota. | Norhwest Territory |
It discribed how the Northwest Terrritory was to be governed. | Northwest Ordinence |
In January 1787, Shays and his men marced on a federal arsenal, a place to store weapons. | Shays's Rebellion |
The Philadelphia meeting became know, were a very impressive group. | Constitutional Convention |
One of the ablest delegates. | James Madison |
Madison, Randolph, and the other Virginia delegates had drawn up the plan while they waited for the convention to open. | Virginia Plan |
A legislative with only one house. | New Jersey Plan |
The constitutional Conventions agreement to extablish a two-house national legislature. | Great Compromise |
Three, fifths of the slave population would be counted when setting direct taxes on the states. | Three-Fifts Compromise |
A system of government in which power is shared between the cental(or federal) government and the states. | Federalism |
The people who supportedthe constitution took the name (blank). | Federalists |
People who opposedthe constitution. | Aftifederalists |
These essays first appered as letters in New York newspaper. | The Federalist papers |
He perhaps the most influential Virginian aside from Washington, also was opposed to it. | George Mason |
One of the first acts of the New government. | Bill of Rights |