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chp 8 vocab js
Question | Answer |
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wilderness road | a trail that goes into kentucky |
republic | where people choose who governs them |
articles of confederation | a document adopted by the continental congress in 1777 |
land ordinance of 1785 | a law that estlabished a plan to for surveying and selling the federal land |
northwest terriorty | this land also includes ohio indiana michigan illionious and wiscon |
northwest oridiance | was described how the northwest terriorty was governed |
shays's reellion | the farmers won the sympathy of many people |
constutitional convection | was the philadelphia meeting became to be known |
james madison | hes one of the ablest delgates |
virginia plan | delegates began to work of desiging a new government |
new jersey plan | called for a legastive with only one house |
great comprise | each state would have the same # of voters |
three-fiths comprise | 3/5 of the slave poppulation would be counted when setting taxes on the states |
federalism | is a system of government in which power is shared between the central |
federalists | people who supported the constutition |
antifederalists | people who opposed the constutition |
the federalists papers | the federalists wrote essays to them |
george mason | was the most influential virgian aside from washington, alsoopposed to it |