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chap 6
| word | Definition |
|---|---|
| loyalist | colonist who supported the British |
| Whig | supporter of revolution |
| Goerge Washington | commander of the continental army main factor in american sucess |
| trenton | new jersey battle where washington took a thousand hessian prisoners on christmas night 1776 |
| saratoga | american victory in 1778 that covinced the french to supports the revolutionaries |
| valley forge | winter camp of continental army 1777-1778 one of the lowest points of the war |
| lord charles cornwallis | british general whose surrender at yorktown in 1781 efectively ended revolutionary war |
| peace of paris | treaty by which britain recongnized american independence granted new nation most land east of the missippi |
| anti slavery movement | opposition to slavery that began slowly during revolutionary period |
| state constitutions | written compacts taht serrved as workshops for democratic experiments in the new nation |
| democracy | fully reprsenative government feared by revolutionary generation as mob rule |
| republicanism | ideal of early revolitionaris that government |
| articles of confederation | first american government; deliberatlely weak |
| newburgh conspiracy | threatened muntiny that showed how deeply some were concerned about weakness of national goverment |
| ordinace of 1785 | law that laid framework for selling western lands |
| northwest ordinance | law that provided for creating new states |
| shay's rebillion | uprising by massachusettes farmers that convinced many americans their government was too weak |
| virginia plan | madison's blueprint for new national governemnt favored large states |
| new jersey plan | counterproposal that favored small states |
| federalism | system of shared power between state and national goverments |
| ratificaiton | struggle to ensure that new consitution was approved by citizens so that goverment deribed its power directly from the people |
| federalists | name supporters of new consitution gave themselves during ratification struggle |
| the federalist papers | series of essays designed to explain new consitution convince people to support it |
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