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Ch.8 vocab
Question | Answer |
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The trail into Kentucky that Daniel Boone helped build | Wilderness Road |
The people choose representatives to govern them | republic |
That outline the form of government of the United State | Articles of Confederation |
A law established a plan of surveying and selling the federally owned land | Land Ordinance of 1785 |
Territory covered by Land Ordinance of 1785 | Northwest Territory |
Described how Northwest Territory was to be governed and set conditions for settlement and settle's right | Northwest Ordinance |
An uprising of dept ridden Massachusetts farmer in 1787 | Shay's Rebellion |
resulted in drafting of the Constitution | constitution Convention |
One of the ablest delegates | James Madison |
proposed a government with three branches and two-house legislature in which representation would be based on state's population or wealth | Virginia Plan |
called for a legislature with only one house | New Jersey Plan |
Agreement to establish a two-house national legislature | Great Compromise |
three-fifths of the slave population would be counted when setting direct taxes on the state | Three-Fifths Compromise |
system of government in which power is share between central government and the states | federalism |
supported the Constitution | Federalist |
people who opposed the Constitution | Anti federalists |
The best known of Federalist essays | Te Federalist paper |
most influential Virginian aside from Washington | George Mason |
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution | Bill of Rights |