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39 Cards in this Set
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Abolitionist
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someone against slavery
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alien
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immagrant
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apprentice
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a begginer who learns a trade or a craf from an experienced master
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articles of confederation
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a document that outlined the form of government in the new us
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boycott
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a refusal to buy certain goods
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bill of right
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the first ten amendments to the us constitution
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Boston massacre
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a clash between british soilders and boston colonists
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cabinet
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a group of department heads who serve as the president's chief advisors
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cash crop
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a crop sold by a farmer to be sold
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conquistador
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a spanish conquerors
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cotten gin
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a machine invented in 1793 to clean cottin faster
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culture
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a way of life shared by people with similar arts
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columbian exchange
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transfer of plants, animals, and diseased between east, west hemispheres
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emigrant
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a person who leaves a country
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colonization
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to establish a colony
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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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industial revolution
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in lated 18th-century britian, factory machines befan replacing hand tools and manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work
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Loyalist
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an american colonist who supported the british in the american revolution
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manifest destiny
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the belief that the us was destined to stretch across the continent from the atlantic ocean to the pacific ocean
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Monroe Doctrine
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a policy of US opposition to any european inter ference in the western hemisphere
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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 a triangular trade route
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mission
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a settlement created by the church in order to convert native americans to christianity
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nationalism
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a feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward 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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englands chief lawmaking body
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popular sovereignty
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a government in which the people rule
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propaganda
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an opinion expressed for the purpose of influencing the action of 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 government, and also backs candidated for office
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precedent
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something that came or exited first
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republic
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a government in which 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 interest of one's own region ahead of the interests of the nation as a whole
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sedition
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a 1918 law that make it illegal to criticize the war
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tariff
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a tax on imported goods
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triangular trade
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goods exchanges between africa england europe the west indies and the colonies in north america
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unconstitutional
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something that contradicts the law of the constitution
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