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15 Cards in this Set
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Wilderness Road
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The trail into Kentucky that woodsman Daniel Boone helped to builed
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Articles of Confederation
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The first plan for a national government; a 1777 document adopted by the Continental Congress
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Land Ordinace of 1785
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Legislation that divided the land west of the Appalachian Moutains into six-square-mile plots
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Northwest Territory
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Region northwest of the Ohio River; Congress divided land into sections and sold them to settlers
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Northwest Ordinance
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A law that set conditions for the settlement and government of the Northwest Territory
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Shays's Rebellion
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An uprising debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers in 1787
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Constitutional Convention
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A meeting held in 1787 to consider changes to the Articles of Confederation
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Virginia Plan
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A proposed plan for a national government that called ofr three branches and a two-house legislation
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New Jersey Plan
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A proposed plan of government that called for one-house legislation, in which each state would have one vote
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Great Compromise
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An agreement to astablish a two-house legislature with different froms of representation
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Three-Fifths Compromise
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An agreement to count three-fifths of the slave population fro determining representation and taxation
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Federalist
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People in favor of the Constitution; believed in shared power between national and state government
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Antifederalist
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People who opposed the Constitution; feared powerful national government and loss of states' rights
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Federalist Papers
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Essay that appeared in New York neewspaper written in support of the constitution
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Bill of Rights
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The first ten amendments to the Constitution that consist of a formal list of citizens' rights and freedom
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