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| the trail into Kentucky that Daniel Boone helped build |
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| An american pioneer who helped build the wilderness road |
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| a government in which people elect representatives to govern for them |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| a document, adopted by the Continental Congress in 1777 and finally approved by the states in 1781, that outlined the form of government of the new United States |
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| a law that established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains |
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| territory covered by the Land Ordinance of 1785, which included land that formed the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota |
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| described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed and set conditions for settlement and settlers' rights. |
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| an uprising of 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; resulted in the drafting of the Constitution |
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| The fourth President of the United States (1809-1817). A member of the Continental Congress (1780-1783) and the Constitutional Convention (1787), he strongly supported ratification of the Constitution and was a contributor to The Federalist Papers (1787-1788), which argued the effectiveness of the proposed constitution. His presidency was marked by the War of 1812. |
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| a plan proposed by Edmund Randolph, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, that proposed a government with three branches and a two-house legislature in which representation would be based on a state's population or wealth |
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| a plan of government proposed at the Constitutional Convention in 1797 that called for a one-house legislature in which each state would have one vote |
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| the Constitutional Convention's agreement to establish a two-house national legislature, with all states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house |
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| the Constitutional Convention's agreement to count three-fifths of a state's slaves as population for purposes of representation and taxation |
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| a system of government where power is shared among the central (or federal) government and the states |
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| supporters of the Constitution |
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| a person who opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution |
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| a series of essays defending and explaining the Constitution |
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| American Revolutionary politician from Virginia. A member of the Constitutional Convention (1787), he voiced criticism that resulted in the drafting of the Bill of Rights. His grandson James Murray Mason (1798-1871) was a Confederate diplomat to Great Britain and France. |
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| the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, added in 1791, and consisting of a formal list of citizens' rights and freedoms |
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