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30 Cards in this Set
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spoils system |
practice of handing out government jobs to supporters |
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tariff |
tax on imports or exports
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mudslinging |
campaigning with someone attempts to ruin their opponent's reputation with insults
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
settlement between the U.S and Mexican America |
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Mexican Cession |
Present day U.S. that Mexico agreed to give up as part of the treaty |
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Gadsden Purchase |
I dont know |
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temperance |
use or little or no alcoholic drink |
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abolitionist |
action or act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution |
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Underground Railroad |
Network of secret routes and safe houses |
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suffrage |
right to vote |
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telegraph |
device or system that uses electric signals to transmit messages by a code over wires |
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trade unions |
organisation made up of members |
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prejudice |
unfair opinion not based on facts |
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discrimination |
unfair treatment of a group |
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nativists |
policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants |
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latitude |
line that goes up and down |
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longitude |
lines that go from side to side |
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Protestant Reformation |
Great religious and historical movement |
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Quaker |
society of friend religious group that believed in pacifism |
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cash crops |
farm crop raised to be sold for money |
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constitution |
a plan of government |
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Constitution |
Plan of government for the United States |
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republic |
government in which citizens rule through elected repesentatives |
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depression |
period of slow economic activity and high unemployment
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federalism |
sharing of power between federal and state government |
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cabinet |
a group of advisers to the president |
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capitalism |
economic system based on private property and free enterprise |
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partisan |
Strong supporter of a party, cause, or person |
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laissez-faire |
policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nations economy |
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patent |
document that gives an inventor the sole legal right to an invention for the period of time |
