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Chapter 11 Vocab Bashara
Chapter 11 Vocab Bashara
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History
8th Grade
02/11/2009

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Term
Tariff
Definition
A tax on imports or exports
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state's rights
Definition
Idea that states have powers and are independent of the federal govt.
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suffrage
Definition

The right to vote

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relocate
Definition
To move someone to another place to live
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veto
Definition
To reject a bill and prevent it from becoming a law
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laissez-faire
Definition
Policy that government should have little control of the nation's economy 
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nullify

Definition
To cancel or make ineffective
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depression
Definition
A period of low economic activity and widespread unemployment
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secede
Definition
to leave or withdraw
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mudsliding
Definition

Attempts to ruin an opponent's reputation with insults

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landslide
Definition
an overwhelming victory
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majority
Definition
more than half
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spoils system
Definition
practive replacing govt. employees with winning candidate's supporters
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caucus
Definition
a meeting held by a political party to choose candidates of decide policy
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bureaucracy
Definition
system in which non-elected officials carry out laws
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plurality
Definition
largest single share
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favorite son
Definition

candidate who received the backing of his home state rather than that of the national party

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Nominating conventions
Definition
the system in which delegates from the states selected the party's presidential candidate
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guerilla
Definition
types of war tactics in which fighting forces make suprise attacks and then retreat into hiding
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log cabin campaign
Definition

an atempt to show presidential candidate William Henry Harrison as a "man of the people"

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