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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 entrerprise
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Tariffs
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a tax on foreign goods
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Political parties
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organization that tries to influence a government
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Foreign policy
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a nations way bof dealing with other nations
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Sedition
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saying or doing anything to bring down a government
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Impressments
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ther practice of drafting sailors by force
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War hawks
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in early 1800s a southren 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 lwas unconsitutinional
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Industrial Reavolution
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a period of rapid industrial growth
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Standarization
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the practice of usuing intrchangeable parts
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Sectionalism
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loyatly to local state or region interest
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Spoils system
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the practice of giving government jobs tto political backers
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Secede
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to withdraw from a union
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Predjudice
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an unfair opinion without facts
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Abolitionist
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a person who worked in the movement to 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 olace for another
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Manifest destiny
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the idea for ones nation to expand across the contitnent
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Mason-dixon line
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border between pennsylvania and maryland
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Platform
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a statement of goals and principles of a group
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Alien
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immigrants living in the united states
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Laissez-faire
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let thew people do as they choose
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Nationalism
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a feeling of pride ina nation and loyalty to its goals
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Embargo
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prohibiting 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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