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Chapter 3
AP Gov. ch.3 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| feudalism | a social system based on a rigid social and political hierarchy based on the ownership of land |
| slavery | the ownership, for forced labor, of one people by another |
| French and Indian War | a war fought between France and England, and allied Indians, from 1754 to 1763, resulted in France's expulsion from the New World |
| popular sovereignty | the concept that the citizens are the ultimate source of political power |
| Common Sense | 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine that persuaded many American to support the Revolutionary cause |
| Articles of Confederation | the first constitution of the united states (1777) creating an association of states with weak central government |
| confederation | government in which independent states unite for common purpose, but retain their own sovereignty |
| popular tyranny | the unrestrained power of the people |
| Shay's Rebellion | a grassroots uprising (1787) by armed Massachusetts farmers protesting foreclosures |
| federalism | a political system in which power is divided between the central and regional units |
| federalists | supporters of the constitution who favored a strong central government |
| anti-federalists | advocates of states' rights who opposed the constitution |
| Virginia plan | a proposal at the Constitutional Convention that congressional representation be based on population, thus favoring the large states |
| New Jersey Plan | a proposal at the Constitutional Convention that congressional representation be equal, thus favoring the small states |
| Great Compromise | the constitutional solution to congressional representation: equal votes in the Senate, votes by population in the House |
| Federalist Papers | a series of essays written in support of the Constitution to build support for its ratification |
| Bill of Rights | a summary of citizen rights guaranteed and protected by a government, added to the Constitution as its first ten amendments in order to achieve ratification |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | the formula for counting five slaves as three for purposes of representation that reconciled northern and southern factions at the Constitutional Convention |
| ratification | the process through which a proposal is formally approved and adopted by vote |
| factions | groups of citizens united by some common passion or interest and opposed to the rights of other citizens or to the interests of the whole community |
| Constitutional Convention | the assembly of fifty-five delegates in the summer of 1787 to recast the Articles of Confederation; the result was the U.S. Constitution |
| Declaration of Independence | the political document that dissolved the colonial ties between the United States and Britain |
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