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| Power of federal courts to decide whether laws are constitutional |
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| roup of people who seek to win elections and hold public offices to control gvernment policy and programs |
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| Taxes on foreign good imported from a country |
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| 1820 agreement calling for the admission of Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and outlawing slavery in future states to be created north 36 degrees 30' N latitude |
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| Treaty signed in 1795 by the United States and several native American people in which the Native Americans gave up control of of most of Ohio |
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| Purchase by the United States of the Louisiana Purchase Territory from France in 1803 |
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| Person placed under a legal contract to work for another in exchange for learning a trade |
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| Economic theory that a country should acquire as much bullion, or gold and silver, as possible, by exporting more goods tahn it imports |
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| Laws passed by congress in1798 that enabled the government to imprison or deport aliens and to prosecute critics of the governnent |
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| the first great depression, or severe economic downturn, in its history. |
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| 1765 law passed by the British parliamentwhich taxed newspapers, legal documents, and other printed materials in the colonies |
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| reduced tax on imported foreign molasses |
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| In colonial America, men and women wealthy enough to hire others to work for them |
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| Part of the triagular trade in which Africans were forcibly taken from Africa to slavery in the Americas |
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| Differnce in value between imports and exports |
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