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25 Cards in this Set
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constitution |
a body of fundamental principles or established pendents according to which or another organization is acknowledge to be governed |
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republic |
a state in which supreme court is held by the people and their elected representatives |
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depression |
feelings of severe desponsity and dejection |
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Great Comprimise |
defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the US |
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Three- Fiths Compromise |
reached between delegates from southern states and from northern states during the 1787 US Constitutional Convention
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Constitution |
a document that embodies the fundemental laws and principles by which the US is governed
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federalism |
the federal principle or system of government
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Electoral Collage |
a compromise between election of the president between by a vote in Congress and by a poplure vote of qualified citizens
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checks and balances |
used to keep one branch of government from gaining too much power |
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Cabinet |
body of dvisers to the president , composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government |
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Bill of Rights |
name for the first ten amendments of the US Constitution
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partisan |
stang support of a party, clause, or person |
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implied powers |
not explicity listed in the Constitution but assumed to excist due to there being necessary to impliment and expressed powers |
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states' rights |
the powers or rights held by individual US states rather then by the federal government
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lassez-faire |
a policy or altitude of things taking there own course, without inferring
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Lousiana Purchase |
land deal between the US and France in which the US got 837,000square miles of land of land west of the MIssissippi River for $15 million
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neutral rights |
the right to sail the seas and not take sides in war |
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sectionalism |
retriction of intrest to a narrow sphere;undue concern with localintrests or petty distractions at the expense of general well-being |
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Missouri Compromise |
effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request from Missouri for admission of a state in which slavery would be admitted
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Industrial Revolution |
transformation to manufacturing processes in the period 1760 to to sometime between 1820 to 1840
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interchangeble parts |
parts for practical purposes that are identical and can freely replace each other
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patent |
a document that gives an inventor that sole legal right to an invention and its profits for a certain period of time |
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factory system |
a method of manufacturing using machinery and division if labor, helps manufacture things faster |
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capitalism |
an economic system based on private property and free enterprise |
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census |
the official count of population, of the United States in 1790 revealed a population of close to 4 million people
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