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41 Cards in this Set
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CONSTITUTION
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A document that has the basic rules to govern a state or country.
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RATIFY
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to formally approve
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REPRESENTATIVE
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A person chosen to speak or vote for others.
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TRADE
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the buying and selling of goods
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ENTREPRENEUR
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someone who starts and runs his/her own business
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BANK
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A business that helps people save and borrow money.
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STOCK
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A share of ownership in a business
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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE (NYSE)
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a building on Wall Street where stocks are bought and sold all over the world
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BIG TREE TREATY
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an agreement in which the Senecas sold nearly all their land to the Holland Land Company
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CANAL
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an inland waterway built for transportation or irrigation
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INDUSTRY
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all the businesses that make one kind of goods or provide one kind of service
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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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the major change, starting in the 1800's, in which power-driven machines replaced hand tools
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IMMIGRANT
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a person who comes to a new country to live
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REFORM
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a change to make things better
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SUFFRAGE
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the right to vote
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ABOLITION
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ending or doing away with completely
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UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
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a group of people who helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom along secret routes before and during the Civil War
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SECEDE
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to withdraw or formally leave an organization
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CONFEDERACY
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the government formed by 11 Southern states that seceded from the United States, 1861-1865
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EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
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the announcement made by President Lincoln in 1863 that all enslaved people living in the Confederate states were free
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RURAL
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of the countryside; including farms, small villages, or unsettled land
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URBAN
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of a city
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LABOR UNION
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a group of workers organized to get better working conditions
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STRIKE
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a refusal; of all workers in a business to work until the owners meet their demands
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TENEMENT
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a crowded, poor maintained apartment building
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AMENDMENT
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an addition to the Constitution
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GREAT DEPRESSION
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the period of widespread economic hardship in the 1930's
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NEW DEAL
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government programs started by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930's to aid people during the Great Depression
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DISCRIMINATION
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an unfair difference in the treatment of people
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CIVIL RIGHTS
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the rights of all citizens to be treated equally under the law
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MANUFACTURING
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making large amounts of goods in factories
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IMPORT
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something brought in from another country for sale or use
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EXPORT
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something sold or trades to another country
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ROCHESTER
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a city on Genesee river and port on the Erie Canal; a major New York center for industry
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SERVICES
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jobs people do to help others rather than to make things
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FINANCIAL SERVICES
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industry involved with managing money
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MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
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government of a village, town, county, or city
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BUDGET
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a plan for using money
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WALL STREET
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A street on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. It became the business center of New York State and the United States.
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ERIE CANAL
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a canal that runs over 350 miles from Buffalo on Lake Erie to Albany on the Hudson River
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CIVIL WAR
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the war in the United States between the Union states of the North and the Confederate states of the South, 1861-1865
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