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Chapter 8 Vocabulary for Ms Link

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the main road into Kentucky that was too small for wagons and carts, made partly by Daniel Boone   Wilderness Road  
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a form of government in which people choose representatives to govern them   Republicanism  
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articles in which the national government have few powers and was run by a confederation congress   Articles of Confederation  
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called for Surveyors to stake out 6 mile square plots in the Mid-West   Land Ordinance of 1785  
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land that surveyors claimed, 6 mile square plots in the Mid-West   North-West Territory  
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described how the North-West Territory was to be governed   North-West Ordinance  
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uprising when Daniel Shays attacked the federal arsenal but was quickly silenced   Shays Rebellion  
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Philadelphia meeting where many of the group were members of the Continental Congress   Constitutional Convention  
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one of the ablest delegates at the Constitutional Convention   James Madison  
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plan which proposed that the Government would have 3 branches: legislative, judicial and executive   Virginia Plan  
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called for Legislature with only one house, each state getting a vote   New Jersey Plan  
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Smallest states get equal votes in Senate, larger states get more representation in House of Representatives   The Great Compromise  
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3/5 of the slave population when setting tax on states   3/5 Compromise  
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a system of government in which power shared between central government and the states   Federalism  
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people who supported the Constitution   Federalists  
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people who opposed the Constitution   Anti-Federalists  
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the best know of the Federalist essays   The Federalist Papers  
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the most influential Virginian aside from Washington   George Mason  
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the ten amendments to the US constitution   Bill of Rights  
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