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40 Cards in this Set
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President
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the head of the executive, or management, branch of government
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week 10
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Propaganda
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ideas spread in order to gain public support for a cause or to damage an opposing cause
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week 10
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Puritans
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settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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week 10
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Radical
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person who favors extreme or sudden changes
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week 10
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Ratification
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the process of approving the Constitution
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week 10
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Reconstruction
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process of readmitting southern states into the Union
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week 10
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Referendum
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a legal process by which people can revoke a law passed by the Legislature
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week 10
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Reparations
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money given by defeated nations as payment for damages suffered by other nations during the war
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week 10
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Repeal
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to reject a law
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week 10
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Republic
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a form of government in which people elect representatives
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week 10
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Revolution
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a major, sudden change in government and peoples' lives
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week 11
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Royal Colony
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a colony ruled by governors appointed by the king
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week 11
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Scalawag
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a southern white in the Republican party during Reconstruction
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week 11
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Secession
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withdrawal of southern states from the Union
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week 11
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Sectionalism
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tensions between North and South as each region placed their own interests above those of the country as a whole
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week 11
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Segregation
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the practice of separating people on the basis of racial, religious or social differences
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week 11
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Separatist
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a person who withdrew or seperated from the Church of England
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week 11
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Senate
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one of the legislative bodies of the U.S. Congress
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week 11
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Slave Codes
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laws that regulated how slaves could be treated
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week 11
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Slavery
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a person owned by another person in order to control their labor
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week 11
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Society
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a broad grouping of people who are bound by common laws, traditions, and activities
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week 12
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Sons of Liberty
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secret society that opposed British policies
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week 12
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States' Rights
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the doctrine that holds that the states have the powers that are not assigned to the federal government by the constitution
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week 12
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Strike
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refusal of workers to work until demand for bettwe wages or working conditions are met
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week 12
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Suffrage
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the right to vote
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week 12
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Summit Meeting
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a meeting held between the heads of two countries to settle political issues
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week 12
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Supreme Court
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the court within the Judicial Branch of the government that has the power to decide wherther laws are constututional
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week 12
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Tariff
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fees charged on an economic activity
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week 12
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Temperance Movement
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restricted the drinking of alcoholic beverages
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week 12
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Territory
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an area of land belonging to a government
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week 12
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Treaty
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a formal agreement to maintain peace
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week 13
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Three-fifths Compromise
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agreement at the Constitutional Convention that allowed slaves to count as three-fifths of a white person
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week 13
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Transcendentalism
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philosophy that believed in the goodness of humans and which valued experiece and intuition above reason and logic
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week 13
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Triangular Trade
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system of trade in which goods were exchanged between Europe, Africa, and the New World colonies
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week 13
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Tyranny
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harsh or unjust rule
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week 13
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Unalienable Rights
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right that the government cannot take away
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week 13
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Unconstitutional
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law that is forbidden by the Constitution
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week 13
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Urbanization
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growth of cities
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week 13
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Virginia Plan
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plan of government that the constitutional convention considered
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week 13
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Xenophobia
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the fear of foreigners or strangers
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week 13
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