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30 Cards in this Set
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Secession |
Withdrawal from the Union |
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Blockade |
When ships cover ports not letting exports or imports
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Habeas Corpus |
Right against unlawfull imprisonment |
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Inflation |
rise in prices
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13th amendment |
Abolished slavery |
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14th amendment |
African Americans citizens
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15th amendment |
African American males the right to vote |
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Impeach |
To charge an official with worngdoing |
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Grandfather Clause |
If your father or grandfather voted before reconstruction you can vote
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Jim Crow Laws |
Laws that secragated African Americans and whites |
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Latitude |
Imaginary lines on a map going east to west measuring north and south |
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Longitude |
Imaginary lines on a map going north and south measuring east to west |
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Protestant Reformation |
A movenment of breaking away from the Catholic church |
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Quaker |
Religion that was against all violence and believed that everyone was equal
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Cash Crops |
rent out farm land and give a portion of the profit to the land owner |
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constitution |
plan of government |
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Constitution |
The United States of America's plan of government |
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republic |
Government when elected officials make laws |
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depression |
period of low economic activity |
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Federalism |
state government and federal government share power |
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Cabinet |
Presidents group of advisors |
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Capitalism |
Idea of free business
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Partisan |
Favoring one side of an issue
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Laissez-faire |
political philosophy that says let the people do what they choose
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Patent |
document for an inventor giving them rights to a product
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Tariff |
tax on imports or exports
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Abolitionist |
Someone who doesn't believe in slavery |
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Suffrage |
right to vote
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Prejudice |
An opinion not based on facts
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Discrimination |
the treatment of a group not based on facts |
