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constitution |
a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed |
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republic |
a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives with a president |
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depression |
a long and severe recession in an economy or market |
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Great Compromise |
was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States |
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Three-Fifths Compromise |
delegates from southern states and those from northern states during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention |
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Constitution |
a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed |
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federalism |
people who support the Constitution and EXACTLY what it says |
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Electoral College |
a body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president. |
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checks and balances |
keeping the government from getting too power in one branch |
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Cabinet |
a body of advisers to the president, composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government |
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Bill of Rights |
is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution |
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partisan |
a strong supporter of a party, cause, or person |
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implied powers |
powers that are not stated, but you can do |
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states rights |
the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government |
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laissez-faire |
abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market |
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Louisiana Purchase |
land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. |
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neutral rights |
both the capability of a state to remain neutral toward other states at war with one another and the freedom of a neutral state |
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sectionalism |
restriction of interest to a narrow sphere |
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Missouri Compromise |
Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missourilate in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted |
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Industrial Revolution |
transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. |
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interchangeable parts |
parts that are, for practical purposes, identical. They are made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any assembly of the same type |
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patent |
a government authority or license conferring a right or title for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention. |
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factory system |
method of manufacturing using machinery and division of labor. |
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capitalism |
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. |
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census |
an official count or survey of a population |
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latitude |
he angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator |
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longitude |
the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the standard meridian |
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Protestant Reformation |
was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era. |
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Quaker |
a member of the Religious Society of Friends |
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cash crops |
a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower. |
