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Chapter 8 Vocab Bk
Question | Answer |
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The trail to Kentucky that daniel Boone help build. | Wilderness Road. |
The people choose representatives to govern them. | Republic. |
The Continental Congree came to the final plan. | Articles of Confederation. |
Called for surveyors to stake townships in the Western land. | Land Ordinance of 1785. |
This Territory included land that formed the states of ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin | Northwest Territory. |
Decribed how the Territory was to be governed. | Northwest Ordinance. |
An uprising of debt ridden Massachusetts farmers in 1787. | Shay's Rebellion. |
Philadelphia Meeting | Constitutional Convention. |
One of the ablest delegates. | James Madison. |
A plan Proposed by Edmund Randolph. | Virginia PLan. |
A plan that called for legislature with only one house. | New Jersey PLan. |
qThe Constitutional Convention's argeement to establish a two-house national legislature. | Great Compromise. |
A system of government in which power is shared between the central government and the states, | Federalism |
The people who supported the Constitution. | Federalists. |
People who opposed the Constitution. | Antifederalists. |
Essay that first appeared as letters in the New York newspapers. | The Federalist Papers. |
The most influential Virginian aside from Washington. | George Mason. |
The ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution | Bill of Rights. |