1. Unit 3 Vocabulary

2. Regulator Movement
When people living in the backcountry(Upcountry) of South Carolina took the law into their own hands before courts were established in that section of the state.

3. Upcountry
After the revolution the backcountry was called the Upcountry.
The Upcountry is the area in the northwestern part of the state.

4. Lowcountry
The lowcountry was the area that surrounded the city of Charleston along the Atlantic coast of S.C.

5. Subsistence Farmers
They grow only enough food to provide for their families and rarely owned slaves.

6. Subsidies
Bonuses or extra money

7. legislature
Body of government responsible for making laws

8. Charleston
Original capital of S.C.

9. Columbia
Capital of S.C.

10. Reapportionment
the act of redistributing or changing the apportionment of something

11. Articles of Confederation
First form of government for the U.S.

12. Philadelphia Convention
A meeting called to solve the problems of the government under the Articles of Confederation

13. Virginia Plan
Representation would be based upon population. (Good for big states)

14. New Jersey Plan
Representation would be equal regardless of size (good for small states)

15. Great Compromise
Provided for equal representation in the Senate and proportional representation in the House of Representatives

16. Emancipate
To free

17. Three-Fifths Compromise
When determining population, slaves would be counted as 3/5 of a person.

18. Commerce Compromise
The federal government would not tax exports or attempt to regulate the international slave trade for at least 20 years.

19. ratification
To approve

20. Federalists
Supported a STRONG federal, central government

21. Anti-federalists
Were AGAINST a strong central government

22. Bill of Rights
Individual rights (1st 10 amendments)

23. Constitution of the U.S.
Established a limited government based on guarantee of individual rights

24. Popular sovereignty
Democracy – the authority for government flows from the people.

25. Individual rights
Unalienable rights are guaranteed to all citizens in the Preamble and the Bill of Rights

26. Federalism
The federal system divides governmental powers between national government and the governments of the states.

27. Separation of Powers
The structure of the new national government established three separate branches of government.

28. Checks and balances
Each branch can check the power of the other.

29. Limited government
Powers of the governments are restricted by the Constitution.

30. Representative democracy
Voters hold the power but elect representatives to exercise power for them.

31. George Washington
1st president of the U.S.

32. Alexander Hamilton
Secretary of the Treasury under Washington

33. Proclamation of Neutrality
Issued by Washington saying that the U.S. would remain neutral in the Napoleonic Wars.

34. X,Y,Z Affair
When 3 representatives of the French government tried to bribe 3 representatives of the U.S. government

35. Alien and Sedition Acts
Designed to silence newspapers from printing material the government did NOT like

36. nullify
To cancel or get rid of, not follow

37. impressment
The British practice of pressing into service American sailors they claimed were British citizens.

38. Embargo Act
Designed to stop American trade with both Britain and France