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Ch.8 History Vocab.

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The trail into Kentucky that woodsman Daniel Boone helped to build Wilderness Road
A government in which people choose representatives to govern for them republic
The first plan for a national government; a 1777 document adopted by the Continental Congress Articles of Confederation
Legislation on surveying western territories west of the Appalachian Mountains into six-square-mile plots Land Ordinance of 1785
Region northwest of the Ohio River through Wisconsin; Congress divided land into sections and sold them to settlers Northwest Territory
A law that set conditions for the settlement and government of the Northwest Territory Northwest Ordinance
An uprising of debt-ridden farmers in Massachusetts broke out in 1786 increasing the support for strengthening the national government Shays's Rebellion
A meeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the Articles of COnfederation Constitutional Convention
Named "Father of the Constitution" for his contributions to the Constitutional Convention James Madison
A proposed-plan for a national government that called for three branches and a two-house legislature Virginia Plan
A proposed plan of government that called for a one-house legislature, in which each state would have one vote New Jersey Plan
An agreement to establish a two-house legislature with different forms of representation Great Compromise
An agreement to count three-fifths of the slave population for determining representation and taxation Three-Fifths Compromise
A system of government in which power is shared between the central government and the states federalism
People in favor of the Constitution; believed in shared power between national and state governments Federalists
People who opposed the Constitution; feared powerful national government and loss of states' rights Antifederalists
A set of essays that appeared in New York newspapers written in support of the Consitution The Federalist Papers
A Virginia delegate who refused to vote for ratification of the Constitution until a bill of rights was added George Mason
The first ten amendments to the Constitution that consist of a formal list of citizens' rights and freedoms helping to protect citizens from the powers of the national government Bill of Rights
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