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Chapter 8 Study Guide 1. The _________________________________ were too weak to govern the nation after the war ended. 2. The weakness of the Articles of Confederation led to the writing of the U.S. ____________________. 3. In 1775, Daniel Boone and 30 woodsmen cut the _________________________ Road over the Appalachian Mountains into Kentucky. 4. Settlers were drawn to Kentucky’s rich river valleys, where tensions between ___________________ Americans and settlers led to violent confrontations. 5. Once the American colonies declared independence, each of the states set out to create its own ______________. 6. Some states included a bill of rights in their _______________________ as a way to keep the government under control. 7. A republic, is where the people choose ____________________________ to govern them. 8. During the Revolutionary War, Silas Deane, a diplomat from Connecticut, wrote, “United we ____________________, divided we fall.” 9. In the Articles of Confederation the national government had few powers, because many Americans were afraid that a strong government would lead to ______________________. 10. The ___________________________ of 1785 called for surveyors to stake out six milesquare plots, called townships.. 11. The _________________________________ (1787) described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed. 12. ______________ was a critical problem for the government, much of that money was owed to soldiers of its own army. 13. Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress did not have the power to ____________________. 14. In Massachusetts ______________________ were so high that farmers fell deeply into debt and ended up in jail. 15. ______________________ asked the Massachusetts legislature to provide debt relief, but the legislature refused and the farmers rebelled. 16. __________________________ Rebellion, as the uprising came to be known, the farmers won the sympathy of many people. 17. The states sent delegates to a convention to solve the problems of the ________________________________________. 18. The Constitutional Convention formed the plan of ____________________________ that the United States still has today 19. The news of Shays’s Rebellion caused many Americans to think that the national ______________________________ needed strengthening. 20. In the summer of 1787 the states sent delegates to the Constitutional Convention in _______________________________ to rewrite the Articles of Confederation. 21. _________________________, who had been elected as a delegate from Virginia, refused to attend; he said he “smelled a rat in Philadelphia, tending toward monarchy.” 22. ____________________________________ was elected a president of the convention. 23. They did not want to be pressured by the politics of the day so they decided that their discussions would remain ___________________________. 24. The Virginia Plan proposed a government that would have_________________________ branches. 25. The first branch of government was the ___________________________, which made the laws. 26. The second branch was the __________________________, which enforced the laws. 27. The third branch was the ___________________________, which interpreted the laws. 28. The Virginia Plan proposed a legislature in which the number of representatives from each state would be based on the state’s population or its ________________________. (Did not pass, wealth was not adopted) 29. Larger states supported the Virginia plan the ________________________ states opposed this plan. 30. The Great Compromise created_________ houses in the legislation branch of government. 31. To satisfy the smaller states, each state would have an equal number of votes in the ________________________. 32. To satisfy the larger states, representation in the ___________________________________ was set according to state populations. 33. The ________________________________ Compromise addressed how slaves would be counted for taxes and representation. 34. Americans across the nation debated whether the ______________________ would produce the best government. 35. The U.S. Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, today protects American __________________________. 36. The framers of the Constitution ___________________________. knew that the document would cause 37. ______________________________ is a system of government in which power is shared between the central government and the states. 38. Linking themselves to the idea of federalism, the people who supported the Constitution took the name _______________________________. 39. People who opposed the Constitution were called _________________________________. 40. A series of essays were written in support of the new Constitution later became known as the ______________________________________. 41. Three well-known politicians wrote The Federalist papers—James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and _____________________________. 42. The patriot Patrick Henry and George Mason fought _____________________________ ratification. 43. The Anti-federalist wanted the power to remain with the ___________________________. 44. The Anti-federalist feared that a strong ________________________________ might become a king or a tyrant. 45. Most of the ______________________________ supported the Constitution, giving the Federalists more publicity than the Anti-federalists. 46. Many states ratified the Constitution, asking that it be amended to include a __________________________________. 47. The first_________________________ amendments to the U.S. Constitution became known as the Bill of Rights. 48. Who was the first President of the United States? _________________________ 49. When was Jamestown Founded? _______________________ 50. When was the Declaration of Independence signed? ________________________