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chapter 8 vocab.
Question | Answer |
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Wilderness | Daniel boone helped build whats called the wilderness road. |
Republic | People choose there repasentative to govern them. |
Articles of confederation | National government had few powers. |
Land ordinance of 1785 | Called surveyors to stake or six mile square plots called townships. |
Northwest territory | Included land that formed the states of Ohio,Indiana, MIchigan,Illinois,Wisconsin. |
Northwest ordinance | Decribed how the northwest was to be governed |
Shays rebellion | An uprising of debt ridden massachuets farmers. |
Constitutional convention | philadelphia meeting became known, Were a very immpressive group, half were lawyers. |
James madison | One of the albest delegates was james madison. He read more than a 100 books to prepare for the meeting. |
Virginia plan | Proposed three branches.The first branch of government was the legeslative,which made laws the executive and the judicial branches. |
Great compromise | To satisfy smaller states, each state would have an equal number of votes. |
Three fifths comprimise | Three fifths of the slaves population would be counted when setting direct taxes on the states. |
Federalism | Is a system of government in which power is shared between the centeral governmentand the states. |
Federalist | People who supported the constitution |
Antifederalist | Thought that constitution took to much power away from the states and did not guarentee rights for the people. |
The federalist papers | these essays first appeared as letters in the new york newspaper and later into published boooks. |
George mason | Perhaps the most influential virginia aside from Washington. |
Bills of rights | First acts of the new government. |