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History 104
Truman State University
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05/05/2010

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Iroquois Confederation
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confederation of 5 and later 6 Indian tribes across upper New York state that during the 17th and 18th centuries played a strategic role in the struggle between the French and the British for mastery of North America.
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indentured servants
Definition
lower class Englishmen who came over to America for the price of being in servitude for a certain amount of time.
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Calhoun Doctrine
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Congress had no constitutional authority to regulate slavery in the territories; a slave-owner can take his slave anywhere he wants to and he will still be his slave. 

 

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mercantilism
Definition
system of state supported manufacturing and trade
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Fugitive Slave Act
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Under its terms federal judges or special commissioners in the northern states determined the status of blacks who were accused of being runaway slaves.

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French and Indian War
Definition
a conflict between the British and the French who allied with the Indians in 1754.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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repealed the MO compromise and formed 2 new territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Nebraska-free & Kansas-slave

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Puritans
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a very strict sect of religious people who governed New England for its first 100 years. 
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Dred Scott vs. Sanford
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a legal battle over where a slave was still considered a slave.

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Stamp Act
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March 22, 1765;

Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. What made the law so offensive to the colonists was not so much its immediate cost but the standard it seemed to set.

In the past, taxes and duties on colonial trade had always been viewed as measures to regulate commerce, not to raise money. The Stamp Act, however, was viewed as a direct attempt by England to raise money in the colonies without the approval of the colonial legislatures.

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Emancipation Proclamation
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a proclamation made by Abraham Lincoln on New Year's Day 1863 that freed the slaves in America.

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Agrarianism
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a social and political philosophy which stresses a rural or semi-rural lifestyle, most especially agricultural pursuits such as farming or ranching. In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England, the word identified any land reform movement that sought to redistribute cultivated lands equally.
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Black Codes
Definition
laws designed to drive the former slaves back to the plantations and deny them elementary civil rights. 
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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the first authorized the deportation of foreigners and the second prohibited the publication of ungrounded or malicious attacks on the president or Congress.
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Sharecropping
Definition
a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land (e.g., 50% of the crop). This should not be confused with a crop fixed rent contract, in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a fixed amount of crop per unit of land
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Hamilton's Report on Public Credit
Definition
it asked congress to buy at face value the millions of dollars in securities issued by the Confederation, a redemption plan that would bolster the government's credit, but also provide windfall profits to speculators.
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Freedmen's Bureau
Definition
In the years following the Civil War, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (the Freedmen's Bureau) provided assistance to tens of thousands of former slaves and impoverished whites in the Southern States and the District of Columbia.
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Second Great Awakening
Definition
a period of great religious revival that extended into the antebellum period of the United States, with widespread Christian evangelism and conversions.
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Indian Removal
Definition
was passed on May 26, 1830 by the Twenty-First Congress of the United states of America.
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Fourteenth Amendment
Definition
 was adopted after the Civil War as one of the Reconstruction Amendments on July 9, 1868 provides a broad definition of citizenship, overruling the decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), which had excluded slaves and their descendants from possessing Constitutional rights.
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