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Early American History
Vocab Review for Final
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History
10th Grade
05/31/2011

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SUGAR Act
Definition
tax on MOLASSES
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Stamp Act
Definition
tax on important PAPERS
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QUARTERing Act
Definition
colonists refused to HOUSE British soldiers
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Intolerable Acts
Definition
laws passed to punish Boston after the Boston Tea Party
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Federalists
Definition
Founding Fathers who wanted a strong central government
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VETO
Definition
the power to say "NO" to any law passed by Congress
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impeachment
Definition
the power to throw an official OUT OF OFFICE
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amendment
Definition
CHANGE to the Constitution
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Bill of Rights
Definition
the FIRST TEN AMENDMENTS
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Star-Spangled Banner
Definition
NATIONAL ANTHEM written during the War of 1812
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Manifest Destiny
Definition
American belief that we had the right to expand our country to the Pacific Ocean
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Missouri Compromise
Definition
this state was added as a slave state and Maine was added as a free state
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Monroe Doctrine
Definition
American promise to protect CENTRAL AMERICA from European countries
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EMANCIPATION Proclamation
Definition
Lincoln 'FREES' the slaves
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Reconstruction
Definition
reuniting America after the Civil War
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Freedmen's Bureau
Definition
government agency set up to help FREED slaves get an education and find jobs
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suffrage
Definition
right to VOTE
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INDUSTRIalization
Definition
change in America from a farming economy to an economy based on MANUFACTURING
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immmigration
Definition
people moving INTO AMERICA from another country
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nativists
Definition
people who DID NOT WANT IMMIGRANTS coming into the country
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MUCKrakers
Definition
people who tried to make the public aware of BAD LIVING and WORKING CONDITIONS in America
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