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Vocab Ch. 8
Question | Answer |
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The trail into Kentucky that Daniel Boone helped build | Wilderness Road |
the people who chose representatives to govern them | republic |
outlined the form of government of the new United States | Articles of Confederate |
called for surveyors to stake out six-mile-plots in the Western lands. | Land of Ordinance |
Land of Ordinance later became known as... | Northwest Territory |
Described how the Northwest territory was to be governed | Northwest Ordinance |
An uprising of dept-ridden Massachusetts farmers in 1787 | Shays's Rebellion |
a meeting to consider changes to the Articles of Confederation held in 1787 | Constitutional Covention |
one of the Ablest delegates | James Madison |
a plan to govern with three branches and two-house legislature | Virginia Plan |
made at the Constitutional Convention for 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 | Great Compromise |
Constitutional Convention's agreement to count three-fifth's of of a states slaves as population | Three-Fifth's Compromise |
a system of government and the states | Federalism |
Linking to the idea of federalism, the people who supported the Constitution took this name | Federalists |
People who opposed the federalists | Antifederalists |
best know of the federalist essays | The Federalist papers |
the most influential Virginian aside from Washington also was opposed to ratification | George Mason |
Ten Amendments ratified and became law with Virginia's vote in 1791 | Bill of Rights |