Chapter.8 vocabulary Word Scramble
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the trail into kentucky that woodsman Daniel Boone helped to build. | Wilderness Road |
a government in which people elect representatives to govern for tem. | 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 established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. | Land Ordinance of 1785 |
territor covered by the Land Ordinace 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 settler's rights. | Northwest Ordinance |
an uprising of debtridden Massachusetts farmers in 1787. | Shays's Rebellion |
a meeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the Articles of Confederation; resulted in the drafting of the Constitution. | Constitutional Convention |
he read more than a hundred books on government in preparation for the meeting. | James Madison |
a plan proposed by Edward Randolph, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, that proposed a goverment 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 establish a two house national legislature, with all states having equal representation based on its population in the other house. | Great Compromise |
the Constitutional Convention's agreement to countthree-fifths of a state's slave 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. | Federalist |
a person who opposed the ratification of the U.S Constitution. | Antifederalist |
a series of essays defending and explaining the Constitution. | The Federalist Papers |
he perhaps the most influential virginian aside from washington, also was opposed to it. | 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 |
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