Chapter 9, random questions.
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| 95437983 | Protestent Episcopal church | new name for the anglican church after it was disestablished and deanglicized in virginia and elsewhere. | 0 | |
| 95437984 | Republican Motherhood | the idea that American women had a special responsibility to cultivate civic cirtue in their children. | 1 | |
| 95437985 | Constitutional Convention | A type of special assembly, originally developed in Massachusetts, for drawing up a fundamental law that would be superior to ordinary law. | 2 | |
| 95437986 | Articles of Confederation | Firts constitutional government of the US. | 3 | |
| 95437987 | Old NW Territory | the territory north of the Ohio river and east of the Mississippi tiver that came to be governed by the confederations acts of 1785 and 1787 | 4 | |
| 95437988 | Township | 6 mile by 6 mile square areas consisting of 36 sections, one of which was set aside for public schools. | 5 | |
| 95437989 | Shay's rebellion | a failed revolt in 1786 by poor debtor farmers that raised fears of mobocracy | 6 | |
| 95437990 | Virginia Plan | The large-state plan proposed to the Const. Convention by which representation both house of the federal legislature would be based on population. | 7 | |
| 95437991 | NJ Plan | The small-state plan proposed to the Const. Convention by which every state would have completely equal representation in a unicameral legislature. | 8 | |
| 95437992 | The Federalist | A masterly series of pro-Constitution articles printed in New York by Jay, Madison, and Hamilton. | 9 | |
| 95437993 | Benjamin Franklin | Revered elder statesman whose prestige in the Const. Conven. helped facilitate the Great Comp. | 10 | |
| 95437994 | George Washington | Unanimously elected chairman of the secret conven. of demigods | 11 | |
| 95437995 | FEDERALISTS | Wealthy conservatives devoted to republicanism who engineered a nonviolent political transformation | 12 | |
| 95437996 | ANTIFEDERALISTS | Group that failed to block the central government they feared but did force the promise of a bill of rights. | 13 | |
| 95437997 | Patrick Henry | Virginia antifederalist leader who thought the Const. spelled the end of liberty and equality. | 14 | |
| 95437998 | Alexander Hamilton | Young new yourker who argued eloquently for the Const. even though he favored an even stronger central government | 15 | |
| 95437999 | John Jay | Frustrated foregn affairs secretary under the Articles; one of the three authors of The Federalist. | 16 | |
| 95438000 | Samuel Adams | Leading Mass. radical during the Amer. Revolution who led the opposition to the Const. in his state in 1787 | 17 |
