Social Studies Final Review

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Abolitionist

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someone who believes in the end of slavery

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Alien

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an illeagal immigrant

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Apperentice

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a begginer who learns a tade or a craft from a experienced master.

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Articles of Confederation

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a document, adopted by the Continental Congress and 1777 and finally approved by the states in 1781, that outlined the form of goverment of the new U.s

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Boycott

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a refusal to buy certain goods

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Bill of Rights

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the first ten amendments to the u.s Constitution, added in 1791, and consisting of a formal list of citizens' rights and freedoms

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Boston Massacre

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a clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which five of the colonists, including Crispus Attucks, were killed.

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Boston Tea Party

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the dumping of 342 chests of tae into the Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protect the Tea Act

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Cabinet

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a group of department heads who serve as the president's cheif advisers

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Cash crop

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a crop grown by a farmer to be sold for money rather than for personal use

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Conquistador

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a Spaniard who traveled to the Americas as an explorer and a conqueror in the 16th century

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Cotton gin

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a machine invented in 1793 that cleaned cotton much faster and for more efficently than human workers

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Culture

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a way of life shared by the people with similar arts, beliefs, and customs

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Columbian Exchange

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the transfor of plants, animals, and diseases between the Western and the Eastern hemispheres

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Colonization

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a group of people settle remote land for the benifit of the mother contry

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Emigrant

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a person who leaves a country

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Frontier

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unsettled or sparsely settled area occupied largely by Native Americans

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Immigrant

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a person who settles in a new country

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Industrial Revolution

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in lare 18th-century Britain, factory machines began replacing hand tools and manufacuring replaced farming as the main form of work

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Loyalist

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an American colonist who supported the Brithish in the American Revolution

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Manifest Destiny

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the belief that the U.S was destined to strech across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

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Monroe Doctrine

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a policy of U.S opposition to any European interference in the Western Hemisphere, announced by President Monroe in 1823

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Migrate

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to move from one location to another

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Middle Passage

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the middle leg of the triangular trade route- the voyage from Africa to the Americas- that brought captured Africans into slavery

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Mission

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a settlement created by the Church to preach, teach, and convert Native Americans to Christianity

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Nationalism

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a feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness towards one's country

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Patriot

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an American colonist who sided with the rebels in the American Revolution

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Parliament

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England's chieif lawmaking body

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Popular sovereignty

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a goverment in which the people rule; a system in which the residents wote to decide an issue

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Propaganda

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an opinion expressed for the purpose of influencing others

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Plantation

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a large farm that raises cash crops

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Political Party

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a group of people that tries to promote its ideas and influence goverment, and also backs candidates for office

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Precendent

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an example set to be followed

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Republic

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a goverment in which the people elect representatives to govern for them

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Secede

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to withdraw

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Sectionalism

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the placing of the intrests of one's own religion ahead of the intrests of the nation as a whole

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Sedition

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a 1918 law that made it illegal to criticize the war; it set heavy fines and long prison terms for those who engaged in anit-war activities

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Tariff

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a tax on imported goods

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Triangular trade

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the transatlantic system of trade in which goods, including slaves, weer exchanged between Africa, England , Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in North America

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Unconstitutional

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something that contadicts the kaow of the Constitution