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30 Cards in this Set
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A tax on goods that are produced in other and sold in the U.S.
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tariff
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A person who called for an end to slavery everywhere.
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abolitionists
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To add to another region or join to another area.
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annex
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Flying an airplane.
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aviation
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Organized refusal to buy goods.
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boycott
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Prejudice
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bias
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States located between the Union and Confederacy.
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border states
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Something that indicates bounds or limits.
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boundary
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A war between people of the same country.
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Civil War
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Rights guaranteed to all U.S. citizens by the Constitution.
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civil rights
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The government formed by the seven seceding states also known as the Confederacy.
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Confederate States of America
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Money owed.
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debt
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The act of buying products with borrowed money instead of cash.
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credit
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Refers to the national government.
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federal
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Period of sever economic hardship that began in the U.S. in 1929.
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Great Depression
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A person who writes or studies history, esp. one who is an authority on it.
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historian
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The rights of individuals to liberty, justice, etc...
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human rights
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The combination of previously racially segregated social facilities into a nonsegregated system.
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integration
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A person who leaves their home country to go live in another country.
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immigrant
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To develop industry on an extensive scale.
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industrialization
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To move from one area to another.
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migration
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A spoken record of past events.
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oral history
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A large area that has common features that set it apart from other areas.
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region
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The time after the Civil War when the country was rebuilding and healing.
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Reconstruction
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The description of events written by a person who did not witness the events.
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secondary source
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Loyalty to a part of a country rather than to the country itself.
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sectionalism
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The separation of blacks and whites.
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segregation
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A place that provides help for immigrants and the poor.
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settlement house
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The right to vote.
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suffrage
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The states that remained loyal to the U.S. government.
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Union
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