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41 Cards in this Set
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What does the declararation of independence state |
If goverment denies its peoples natural rights the goverment may be overthrown |
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Steps towards representative democracy includes
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New England town meetings and the virginia house of burgess |
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"...governments are institutied among men deriving their just power from the consent of the governed" means |
Goverment must be respondive ti the will of the people |
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What did john lock/jefferson called the right of life, liberty, and property |
Natural rights/unalienable rights |
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What does the decoration of independence and the bill of rights both support |
Limit on goverment power |
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Articles of confederation |
Reflected the fear of strong central goverment, creating a weak national goverment. 1st plan for goverment |
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Lower/upper house of bicameral legistlature |
House of representative/senate |
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Elastic clause |
pass all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the enumerated list of powers. |
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Main purpose of of the bill of rights |
To protect people's civil rights from abuse by the federal government To limit the federal government |
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Louisiana purchase |
1800/Mississippi River port of New Orleans at the Gulf of Mexico |
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Louisiana purchase |
1800/Mississippi River port of New Orleans at the Gulf of Mexico |
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Lewis and Clark expedition |
-map the new territory -develop relationships w natives -found the north west passage |
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Monroe doctrine |
1820/1st real foreign policy plant for the us/closed the Western Hemisphere as our sphere of influence |
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Monroe doctrine |
1820/1st real foreign policy plant for the us/closed the Western Hemisphere as our sphere of influence |
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Manifest destiny |
Belief that it was gods will that United States would span from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
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Sectionalism |
The loyalists to the interests of ones owns region or part of the county as a whole |
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Events intensified sectional differences between north and south |
-Missouri applying for statehood in 1820 -disputes over tariff and internal improvements -Kansas Nebraska act -differences between economic interests |
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Lincoln justified his decision to go to war against the south based on the fact that his oath of office required him to |
Preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states |
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Lincoln justified his decision to go to war against the south based on the fact that his oath of office required him to |
Preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states |
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Missouri compromise |
1820/ set the standard for where slaves could and couldn't exist in the NEW territories. 36;30 anything north but Missouri is free but south is slave stayes |
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Lincolns plan for reconstructing the south |
Reunite the union a$ap |
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Slave codes |
Attempt to regulate african american personal lives |
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Assimilate |
Whitewash people |
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Homestead act |
1862/completion of the transcontinental railroad helped the us to rapid settle the west and to complete its goal of manifest destiny |
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Railroad companies contributed to the economic development of the usa in the 19th century by |
-providing inexpensive transportation for raw metrical -makes it cheaper to transport finished products to consumers -provides new markets |
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Aliases-faire capitalism |
Goverment should keep its hands off the economy |
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Labor unions wanted to improve the position of workers primarily by |
Gaining the legal right to organize and collective bargaining |
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Progressive presidents wanted to |
Roosevelt taft wilson wanted to pass laws and regulations to correct unfair business practices |
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Trust |
Large business with significant market power that created monopolies or near monopolies in the united state |
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Philanthropy |
Giving money back to charity Practiced by andrew Carnegie, john d rockafeller, and j.p morgan |
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During the progressive er 16th 17th and 19th amendments were passed, concerning |
Income tax, direct election of senetors and women's suffrage |
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Referendum |
A measure that the people may vote on -gives a greater voice to the citizens un goverment |
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Roosevelt corollary |
The us based its right to act as the police men of the Western Hemisphere an get involved in the internal affairs of latin american nations |
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13 th amendment |
Ended slavery |
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14th amendment |
Treatment under the law No state can deny you due process of the law |
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15th amendment |
Cannot deny someone to vote based on thier race |
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Poll tax Literacy test |
Tax they had to pay to vote Had to take literacy test to vote -limited poor uneducated freedmen from voting |
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Dawes act |
Gave native americans free land just to individuals to divide and conquer |
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Exampl/purpose of anti-trust legislation |
Sherman anti trust act/ to break down big business to make sure they dont become monopolies |
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Chinese exclusion act |
Prohibited all immigration of chinese laborers |
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Karl max |
Communist????? Idk????? |
