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30 Cards in this Set
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secession |
the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state |
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blockade |
an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving. |
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habeas corpus |
the right against unlawful arrest
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inflation |
a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money |
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13th Amendment |
banned slavery in the U.S. |
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14th Amendment |
amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War |
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15th Amendment |
prohibited the state and federal governments from denying any male citizen the right to vote because of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude” |
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impeach |
which is formally charging the president with wrongdoing |
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grandfather clause |
allow those who failed the test to vote if their fathers or grandfathers voted before Reconstruction |
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Jim Crow Laws |
required African Americans and whites to be separated in almost every public place |
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latitude |
imaginary lines that run east west on the globe and measure distance north to south |
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longitude |
imaginary lines that run north south on the globe and measure lines east to west |
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Protestant Reformation |
religious movement where people broke away from the Catholic church to form their own Christian churches |
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Quaker |
religious group whose religion believes in equality for everyone and are pacifists |
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cash crop |
farm product raised to be sold for money |
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consitution |
plan of governement |
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Constitution |
plan of government for the U.S.A. |
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republic |
a government in which the citizens rule through elected representatives and the elected representatives make the laws |
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depression |
period of low economic activity and widespread unemployment |
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federalism |
the sharing of power between national and state government |
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cabinet |
a group of advisers to the president |
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capitalism |
an economic system based on private property and fee enterprise |
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partisan |
favoring one side of an issue |
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laissez-faire |
little government involved in economic issues |
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patent |
a document that gives an inventor the sole legal right to an invention over a period of time |
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tariff |
tax on imported goods |
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abolitionists |
groups of people who supported the end of slavery |
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suffrage |
the right to vote |
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prejudice |
unfair opinion of a person or group based upon something like race, ethnicity, or religion |
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discrimination |
unfair treatment of a person or group based upon something like race, ethnicity, or religion |
