Ch 5section 1-2 Vocab

Question 1

Document decorating in association of well guaranteeing each state it’s sovereignty, freedom, and independence

Answer 1

Article of Confederation

Question 2

Legislature that divided Western lands into townships and made provisions for Public schools

Answer 2

Land ordinance of 1785

Question 3

Legislation that establish a system for governing the northwest territory

Answer 3

NorthWest land ordinance

Question 4

Rising of Massachusetts farmer led by Daniel Shays to pretext taxes, debt, and foreclosures

Answer 4

Shays rebellion

Question 5

A system of government in which power is divided between a strong central government and state government

Answer 5

Federalism

Question 6

A legislature made of two houses

Answer 6

Bicameral

Question 7

Meeting in Philadelphia at which state delegates wrote the U.S. Constitution

Answer 7

Constitutional convention

Question 8

Plan drafted by James Madison at the Constitutional convention that shifted power away from the states and toward the central government

Answer 8

Virginia plan

Question 9

Provided a strong Unicameral or one house legislature in which each state would have 1 vote

Answer 9

New Jersey plan

Question 10

Agreement worked out at the Constitutional convention granted each state and equal vote in the population in the lower house

Answer 10

Great compromise

Question 11

Agreement worked out because there’s no convention say that 3/5 of the states slave population would come in turning that states representation in the lower house of Congress

Answer 11

3/5 compromise

Question 12

Supporters of ratification of the Constitution

Answer 12

Federalists

Question 13

People who feared a powerful national government and opposed the Constitution as written

Answer 13

Anti-federalists

Question 14

Early American Republic proposing that women could influence politics and society through their work in the home

Answer 14

Republican motherhood