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Historia Americana
--> 1877
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History
Undergraduate 2
05/11/2011

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Term
free soilers
Definition
do not want slavery
Term
popular sovereignty
Definition

(popular vote?)

 

a pre-Civil War political doctrine that held that individual states should decide whether to permit slavery or not

Term
abolitionists
Definition
 want permanent ban of slavery, want constitutional ammendment to ban slavery, they control the Northern newspapers so news is filled with storied of how important it is to get rid of slavery . They are die-hards and fanatics. South thinks that everyone in the North is an abolitionist because of how the newspapers only show stories of anti-slavery
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substinence economy
Definition
grow/make only what you need to survive on
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market economy
Definition

when you grow/make in excess of survival needs and sold that extra for profit

 

they'd use that $ to invest in their farms, beginning growth of small businesses

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