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30 Cards in this Set
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spoils system |
practice of polic party |
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tarff |
a tax on import and exports |
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mudslinging |
the use of insults |
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Tready of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
treaty of peace, frienship limits, and settlement |
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Mexican Cession |
tlistorical name |
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Gadsden Purchase |
a purchase of 29,640 square mile |
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temperance |
the use of drinking little |
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abolitionist |
the idea that slavery needed to be ended |
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Underground railroad |
a path that over 1,000 slaves were freed |
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suffrage |
the right to vote |
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telegraph |
to signal or transmit a message by code
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trade unions |
workers with the same skills or trade as each other |
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prejudice |
a unfair opinion |
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discrimination |
unfair treatment of a group |
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nativist |
people who opposed imagination |
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latitude |
the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator
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longitude |
he angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian
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Protestant Reformation |
was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era
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Quaker |
society of friends belived to be equal |
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cash crops |
farm crop raised to be sold for money |
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constitution |
Plan of goverment |
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Constitution |
Fundamental law of the U.S. of american |
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republican |
citizen rule through elected |
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depression |
a period of slow economic activity and high unemployment |
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federalism |
a system of government in witch power was dived |
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cabinet |
U.S is composed of the most senior appointed officers |
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capitalism |
an economic and political party |
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partisan |
a firm adherent to a party, faction,cause, or person |
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laissez-faire |
little government involvement |
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patent |
a government authority, to rights to profits to inventions |
