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59 Cards in this Set
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Joint stock compaines |
Companies that allowed several investors to pool their wealth in support of a colony |
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Puritain |
People who wanted to "purify" or reform the church by eliminating all traces of Catholicism |
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Quaker |
A Protestant sect that held services without formal ministries |
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Enlightenment |
Movement in which philosophers values reason and scientific movement |
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Great Awaking |
A series of religious revivals aimed at reasoning the intensity and dedication of the early Puritan church |
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Proclamation of 1763 |
A proclamation line along the Appalachians, which the colonists were not allowed to cross |
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John Locke |
A key enlightenment thinker who believed that people have the rights to life, liberty, and property |
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Thomas Jefferson |
Virginia lawyer who prepared the final draft of the Declaration of Independence |
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Declaration of Independence |
A document that declared the rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" to be "unalienable" rights |
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Treaty of Paris |
Confirm to US as an independent nation and set it's boundaries |
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Equalitarianism |
A belief in the equality of all people |
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Republic |
Government in which citizens rule through their elective representatives |
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Articles of confederation |
A new plan of government in a set of laws |
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Federalism |
Government in which power is divided between the national government and several state government |
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Checks and Balances |
A system that prevents any one branch of government from getting too powerful |
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Ratification |
A process where nine states had to approve the constitution |
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Federalists |
People who favored the new constitution's balance of powers |
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Declaration of Independence |
A document that declared the rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" to be "unalienable" rights |
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Bill of Rights |
The first 10 amendments of the Constitution |
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Judiciary Act of 1789 |
Provided for a Supreme Court and federal circuit and district courts |
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Cabinet |
The president's chief advisors |
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Two-party system |
The government had two different parties |
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Alien and Sedition Acts |
Four measures that countered what federalists saw as a growing threat |
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Nullification |
The states had a right to consider any act of congress void, if it seemed unconstitutional |
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Marbury vs. Madiskn |
Allowed the Supreme Court judicial review |
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Judicial review |
The ability of the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional |
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Monroe doctrine |
The colonies wouldn't interfere with other nations affairs |
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John marshall |
The federal Chief Justice that set up judicial review |
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Treaty of Paris |
Confirm to US as an independent nation and set it's boundaries |
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Missouri compromise |
Set boundaries of where slavery was legal and illegal |
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Manifest Destiny |
Belief that America was meant to reach the pacific |
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Abolision |
The movement to abolish slavery |
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Fredrick Douglas |
A peaceful abolitionist |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
One of the founders of the women's rights conference |
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Seneca Falls convention |
Approved all parts of the constitution and allowed women to vote |
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Secession |
The formal withdrawal of a state from a union |
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Popular sovereignty |
The right to vote for or against slavery |
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Dred Scott |
A slave whose owner took him to a free state |
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Abraham Lincoln |
Believed slavery was immoral and republic challenger |
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Equalitarianism |
A belief in the equality of all people |
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Confederacy |
The confederate states of American |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
A brave and decisive military leader |
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Robert E Lee |
Was willing to go beyond military strategy textbooks |
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Emancipation proclamation |
Gave people a moral purpose to free the slaves |
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Gettysburg address |
Lincolns speech that "remade" America |
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Appomattox Court house |
Where they arranged the confederates surrender |
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Income Tax |
A tax that takes a specified percentage of an individuals incone |
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Thirteenth Amendment |
Abolished slavery for good |
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Reconstruction |
The rebuilding of the US after the war |
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Fourteenth Amendment |
Prevented states from denying rights and privileges to any US citizen |
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Republic |
Government in which citizens rule through their elective representatives |
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Fifteenth Amendment |
No one can be kept form voting because of race, color, or precious condition or servitude |
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Articles of confederation |
A new plan of government in a set of laws |
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Federalism |
Government in which power is divided between the national government and several state government |
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Checks and Balances |
A system that prevents any one branch of government from getting too powerful |
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Ratification |
A process where nine states had to approve the constitution |
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Federalists |
People who favored the new constitution's balance of powers |
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Antifederalists |
People who opposed having a strong central government |
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Ku klux klan (kkk) |
A white Supremest group that wanted to destroy the republican party |
