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23 Cards in this Set
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Feudalism |
A social system in which a rigid social and political hierarchy was based on the ownership of land |
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Slavery |
The ownership, for order labor, of one people by another |
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French and Indian War |
A war fought between France and England, and Indians, from 1754 to 1763; resulted in France's expulsion from the new world |
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Popular sovereignty |
The concept of the citizens are the ultimate source of political power |
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Common Sense |
1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine that persuaded many Americans to support the Revolutionary cause |
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Declaration of Independence |
Political document that dissolve Colonial ties between the United States and Britain |
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Constitution |
The rules that establish a government |
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Articles of Confederation |
The first Constitution of the United States (1777) creating an association of states with a weak central government |
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Confederation |
A government in which independent states unite for common purpose but retain their own sovereignty |
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Popular tyranny |
The unrestrained power of the people |
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Shay's Rebellion |
A grassroot uprising (1787) by armed Massachusetts farmers protesting foreclosures |
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Constitutional Convention |
Assembly of 55 delegates in the summer of 1787 to recast the Articles of Confederation; the result was the U.S. Constitution |
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Federalism |
A political system in which power is divided between the Central and Regional units |
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Federalists |
Supporters of the Constitution who favored a strong central government |
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Anti-Federalists |
Advocates of states rights who opposed the Constitution |
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Virginia Plan |
A proposal at the Constitutional Convention that congressional representation debate on population, thus favoring the large states |
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New Jersey Plan |
A proposal at the Constitutional Convention of that congressional representation be equal, thus favoring the small state |
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Great Compromise |
The Constitutional solution to congressional representation: equal votes in the Senate, votes by population in the house |
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Three-Fifths Compromise |
Formula for counting five slaves as three people for purposes of representation, which reconciled northern and southern factions at the Constitutional Convention |
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Ratification |
The process through which a proposal is formally approved and adopted by vote |
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The Federalist Papers |
A series of essays written to build support for ratification of the Constitution |
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Factions |
Groups of citizens united by some common passion or interest in opposed to the rights of others that is similar to the interest of the whole community |
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Bill of Rights |
A summary of Citizen rights guaranteed and protected by a government; added to the Constitution as it first 10 amendments in order to achieve ratification |
