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32 Cards in this Set
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Compulsory public education
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mandatory free schools that children had to go to
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Capitalism
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the economic system characterized by private enterprise competition and the free market
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Tariffs
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a tax on foreign goods
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Political Parites
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organization that tries to influence government policies
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Foreign policy
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a nations way of dealing with other nations
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Seditition
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saying or doing anything to bring down a government
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Impressments
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the practice of drafiting sailors by force
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War Hawk
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in the early 1800s a southeren or westeren leader who favored war with england
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Judicial Review
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the power of the supreme court to declare laws unconstitusionsal
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Industrial Revolution
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a peroid of rapid growth that began to spread to other countries
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Standardization
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the practyice of usuing interchangeable parts
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Sectionalism
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loyalty to local state or region interests
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Spoils System
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the practice of giving government jobs to political backers
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Secede
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to withdraw from the union
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Predjudice
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an unfair opinion formed without facts
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Abolitinist
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a person who worked in the movement to do away with slavery
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Suffrage
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the right to vote
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Emigrants
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a person who leaves one place for another
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Manifest Destiny
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the idea that it was the nations destiny to expand across the contininet to the pacific ocean
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Mason-Dixon Line
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the border between pennslyvania and maryland
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Platform
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a statement of the goals and principles of a group
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Alien
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immigrants living in the united states but not citizens
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Laissez-Faire
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let the people do as they choose
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Nationalism
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a feeling of pride in a nation and loyalty to its goal
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Embargo
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prohibiting a trade with another country
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Paleo
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old
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Neo
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new
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Lithic
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stone
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Ex
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out
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Chron
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time
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Con
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with or together
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Scrib
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to write
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