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29 Cards in this Set
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spoils system |
practice of handing out government jobs to supporters, replacing government employees with the winning candidates supporters
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tariff |
a tax on imports or exports
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mudslinging |
the use of insults and accusations, especially unjust ones, with the aim of damaging the reputation of an opponent
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
Mexico gave up Texas and agreed that the Rio Grande would be the border between Texas and Mexico
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Mexican Cession |
Mexico gave up California and New Mexico for $15 million
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Gadsen Purchase |
strip of land along the southern edge of present-day Arizona and New Mexico
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temperance |
drinking little or no alcohol |
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abolitionists |
the idea that slavery needed to be ended
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Underground Railroad |
network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada |
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suffrage |
the right to vote in political elections
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telegraph |
a device or system that uses electric signals to transmit messages by a code over wires
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prejudice |
preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience
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discrimination |
the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things
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nativists |
people who oppose immigration
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latitude |
imaginary circles that run east to west around the globe and measure distance from north to south |
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longitude |
runs from the north pole to the south pole and measures distance east to west |
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Protestant Reformation |
a great religious and historical movement where people broke away from the catholic church to form their own christian churches |
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Quaker |
a religious group that believed in pacifism and full equality |
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cash crop |
farm crop raised to be sold for money |
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constitution |
a plan of government |
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Constitution |
a plan of government for the US
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republic |
a government in which citizens rule through elected representatives
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depression |
a period of slow economic activity and high unemployment
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federalism |
the sharing of power between the states and federal government
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cabinet |
a group of advisors to the president
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capitalism |
an economic system based on private property and free enterprise
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partisan |
favoring one side of an issue
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laissez-faire |
policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy
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patent |
a document that gives an inventor the sole legal right to an invention for a period of time
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