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20 Cards in this Set
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Virginia House of Burgesses |
First representative assembly in the colonies. |
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Unalienable rights |
Basic rights that cannot be taken away from people. |
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Treaty of Paris 1783 |
Official end to the American Revolution. |
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Mercantilism |
Economic system where a colony's financial responsibility was to support its parent country. |
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Free Enterprise System |
Citizens and the government controlled the economy. |
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Northwest Ordinance |
The U.S. would expand into the Northwest Territory. |
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Separation of Powers |
Division of governmental power between the three branches. |
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Checks and Balances |
Each branch of government can check the power of the other two branches. |
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Limited government |
Government's powers are limited to those given by the people. |
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Federalism |
Division of power between the national and state government. |
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Popular Sovereignty |
Government that is ruled by the citizen's voting decisions. |
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Republicanism |
Government style that where citizens rule through their elected officials. |
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Jackson Democracy |
Spreading political power to all people, not just the rich and educated, to ensure majority rule. |
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Trail of Tears |
Cherokee name for the 800 mile journey where 1/4th population died. |
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Manifest Destiny |
the idea that the U.S. was destined to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. |
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Protective Tariff |
Tax on imported goods designed to help U.S. companies. |
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Nullification Crisis |
Idea that a state government could nullify, or ignore, a federal law that unfairly hurts their state. |
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Missouri Compromise |
Balanced number of free and slave states. |
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Compromise of 1850 |
Attempt to balance free and slave states after the Mexican Cession. |
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Kansas-Nebraska |
Compromise |
