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15 Cards in this Set
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Suffrage
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The right to vote |
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anti-semitism |
prejudice against Jews
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Manifest Destiny |
that idea that it is the right and the duty of the United States to rule North America from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean |
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Abraham Lincoln |
He successfully prosecuted the Civil War to preserve the nation. He played in key role in passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which ended slavery in America. |
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secede |
to withdraw formally from an association or alliance
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U.S. Civil War |
a conflict between northern and southern states of the United States over the issue of slavery from 1861 to 1865 |
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segregation |
the legal or social separation of people of different generations
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Emancipation Proclamation |
declaration issued by U.S president Abraham Lincoln in 1863 stating that all slaves in confederate states were free
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assembly line |
an arrangement in which a product is moved from worker to worker, wit each person performing a single task in its manufacture |
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Henry Ford |
founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. |
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theory of evolution |
idea proposed by Charles Darwin in 1859 that species of plants and animals arise by means of of a process of a natural selection |
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psychology |
the study of the human mind and human behavior |
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Marie Curie |
She discovered radioactivity |
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imperialism |
policy in which a strong nation seeks dominate other countries politically, economically, and socially |
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racism |
the belief that one race is superior to others |
