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Fifteenth Amendment |
United States constitution prohibits the federal and state government frem denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizens "race, color, or previous condition of servitude. |
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Ku Klux Klan |
A secret organization founded in 1915 after the civil war. Active in the southern and other parts of the U.S., directed against blacks, Catholics, Jews,and the foreign-born. |
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Bill of rights |
bill of rights was officially valid in 1791. they are the first 10 amendments of the u.s. constitution. they are formal declarations of legal and civil rights of citizens. |
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Mercantilism |
Mercantilism was an economic theory and practice, dominant in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century, that promoted governmental regulation of a nation's economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of rival national powers. It is the economic counterpart of political absolutism. |
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Boston Massacre |
Was a street fight that occurred on March 5,1770, between a "patroit" mob, throwing snowballs, stones,and sticks , and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a compaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. |
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Nat turner |
Was an African American slave who led a slave rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths |
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Underground railroad |
A network of houses and other places that abolitionist used to help slaves escape to freedom in the northern states or in Canada before the civil war. |
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Stamp Act |
An act of the British Parliament for raising revenue in the American colonies by requiring the use of stamps and stamped paper for official documents, commercial writing, and various article: it was to go into effect on November 1, 1765, but met with intense opposition and was repealed in March,1766. |
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Mexica |
Majority of 80 Million people who lived in the western Hemisphere in the 1490s inhabited Mesoamerica and south America, Europeans often called these poeple Aztecs. |
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Mayflower compact |
An agreement reached by the pilgrims on the ship the Mayflowerin 1620, just before they landed at Plymouth Rock. The Mayflower compact bound them to live in a civil society according to their own laws. |
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Bleeding Kansas |
Was a term coined to discrive the violent civil disturbance in the US territory of Kansas from 1854 to 1861 The violence was provoked by the Kansas - Nebraska Act, a piece of legislation passed in the US Congress in 1854. |
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Trail of tears |
The route along which the United States government forced several tribes of Native Americans, including the Cherokees, Seminoles, Chickasaws,Choctaws, and Creeks, to migrate to reservation west of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s. |
