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| An 1845 phrase that encompassed American vision of western expansionism |
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| the practice of state regulation and control of an economy |
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| 1820 legislation that tried to resolve the conflicts raised by the addition of new territories as either slave or non- slave owning areas |
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| the worship of one god and only one god |
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| a concept derived by Southerners following the Missouri Compromise that would have given Southern states the right to refuse to obey laws they did not agree with |
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| A term used to describe the Central Pacific railroad's monopoly of having every sector of of California's commerce |
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| A regilious group who had broken away fromt eh Church of England, first relocated to Holland to escape persecution, then sailed in 1620 to become the first settlers to arrive in (Plymouth) Massachusettes |
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| Forts built by the Spanish to offer protection to California's missionaries and settlers during the periods of violent revolt by the native workers |
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| towns based around California missions and presidios, built around a church and a town square |
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| A land allotment system defined by a few large landowners and many landless workers |
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| A mechanism for ending an elected official's tenure before it's scheduled completion |
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| President's Lincoln first priority after the Civil War to reconcile the warring states and rebuild areas affected by the war |
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| A statue or amendment that passed the state legislative,which is then placed the proposed law on a ballot for approval by the electorate |
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| A religious belief in the after physical death a rebirth in another body occurs, a central tenet in HINDUISM among other religions |
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| Internment camps that held people of Japanese descent during WWII |
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| A french word meaning ~rebirth: the name given to the flowering of European culture at the end of the Medieval period |
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| the self-given right of the seven states of the lower South to leave the Union if they so desired |
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| A philosophy, along the election rules, that was designed to deny blacks the right to vote after RECONSTRUCTION ended |
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| peasants who worked the land in a feudal system |
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| In feudal Japan,the eqivalent to a Medieval king |
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| A nickname for the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, originally referring to the concentration of silicon chip innovations and manufacturers, but eventually referring to the entire concentration of all types of high tech businesses |
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| An economic system in which workers control the means of production and share in the profits of their labor |
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| A plan created by President Lincoln before his assassination, and carried out by his successor, Andrew Johnson, stating that a state who voted in the 1860 election vowed loyalty to the Union |
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| A intial rule in the Constitution stating that in state population counts, each slave would count for 3/5 of a free person |
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| The equivalent of a knight in a feudal system |
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