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entrepreneur
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a person who uses his or her own money to create a new business
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polygamy
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the practice of having more than one wife
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specialization
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in farming, the raising of one or two crops for sale rather than a variety of foods for personal use
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capitalism
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an economic system in which private individuals and corporations control the means of production and use them to earn profits
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zeal
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enthusiastic and diligent devotion in pursuit of a cause ideal or goal
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consumer
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one who purchases material goods
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predestination
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the act whereby God is believed to have foreordained all things
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segregate
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to separate people on the basis of race
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specie
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gold and silver
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cede
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to relinquish, as by treaty
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monopoly
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exclusive legal control of a ocmmercial activity
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nullification
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a state's refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional
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embargo
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a government ban on trade with one or more other nations
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sedition
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stirring up discontent against the government
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rehabilitation
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to restore to a useful life through education
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Was killed by an anti morman mob
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joseph smith
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"Fifty-four forty or fight" was a boundary dispute between the us and this nation
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great britain
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The latitude 50' 40' in fifty four forty or fight refers to the
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northern boundary of the oregan territory
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Which trail was developed primarily for the transportation of goods
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santa fe trail
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what is the most immediate cause of the rise of manufacturing in the US
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stoppages of trade by the Embargo Act and the War of 1812
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the second great awakening centered ont he belief that a person's salvation depended on
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his or her own efforts
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the whiskey rebellion and its outcome established the fact that the federa lgovernment had the power to
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enforce federal laws within states
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In his farewell address George washington advised the american people to
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avoid permenant alliances with foreign nations
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an important result of Hamiltons financial policies was the
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strengthening of the federal government
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which event was viewed as an attemt by the federalist party to weaken the Democratic Republican party
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passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts
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"Liberty first and Union afterwards" was a statement made by
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john c calhoun
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in Marbury v. Madison the US supreme court
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declared a section of the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional
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demise
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death
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effigy
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a crude image or dummy fashioned in the likeness of a person often as an expression of hatred
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bleeding kansas
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Pottawatomie Massacre
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Harper's Ferry
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federal arsenal in VA
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Freeport Doctrine
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Stephen A. Douglas's View
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Whig Party
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Now divided into northern "conscience" and southern "cotton" - hastened demise
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Personal liberty laws were passed in order to get around the
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fugitive slave act
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What was henry clay's promary purpose in offereing the compromise of 1850
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to avoid a civil war over the issue of slavery
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what was intended to spark a general slave uprising
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the raid on Harper's Ferry
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Which Principle concerning slavery was established by the Dred Scott decision
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congress could not exclude slavery from the territories
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during the period from 1800 to 1850, which section or sections favored protextive tarrifs and internal improvements
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north and west
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gettysburg address
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helped americans in the union to realize that the US was a single nation
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national union party
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elected lincoln for a second term
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what two events directly concerned relations with the us and england
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rush-bagot agreement and the trent affair
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the "cheese box on a raft" describes the
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monitor
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the union gov't was in error in seizing mason and slidell because
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they were aboard a british vessel when captured
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the "cheese box on a raft" describes the
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monitor
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which pair of early civil war conflicts were clearly union defeats
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fort sumter and bull run
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all of the followng were major objectives in the uinion plan for conquest of the south except the
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capture of gettysburg
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confiscate
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to seize private property as a penalty
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reprisal
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the forcible seizure of the enemy's goods in retaliation for inflicted injuries
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what happened when the newly elected southern legislators arrived in Congress in late 1865
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congress refused to recognize their election
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in 1867 congress decided that southern states that had not been readmitted to the union would be
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supervised by military officers
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the preiod of Gran'ts presidency was generally one of economic
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prosperity
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during the civil war, general sherman promised "40 acres and a mule" to
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freed slave families in the south
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when reconstruction began one of the only groups that didn't make up the republican party in the south were
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redeemers
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the radical republicans in congress after the civil war were those who
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regarded the southern states as conquered territory
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during reconstruction, this did not increase int he south
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percapita income
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soon after johnson took office it was clear that his initial plans for reconstruction would be
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similar to lincoln's policies
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The civil rights act of 1866 did was not
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signed into law by Andrew Johnson
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when the house of representatives impeached johnson it
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formally accused him of wrongdoing
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when recontruction began the following group of americans living in the south tended to support the democratic party
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wealthy landowners
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during reconstruction most tenant farmers
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barely survived by farming their own land
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