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| An item left behind by early people that represents their culture |
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| laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African Americans workers |
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| name given to Northerm whites who moved to the South after the Civil War and supported the Republicans |
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| a special geoup of voters selcted by their state's voters to vote for president and vice president |
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| an act that alowed people free land in the West |
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| a period of ectremely cold temperatures when part of the planet's surface was covered with massive ice sheets |
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| putting to death a person by illegal action of a mob |
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| American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence |
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| total control of a type of industry to one person or one company |
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| The first ship that brought people over |
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| S formal document, written in 1620, that provided law and order to the Plymouth colony |
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| companies of civilan soldiers who boasted that they were ready to fight on a minute's notice |
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| moving from place to place, usually in search of food oe grazing land |
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| American colonists who were determined to fight the British untill American independence was won |
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| a document that gives an inventor the sole legal right to an invention for a period of time |
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| the reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War |
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| a shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions |
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| systen of farming in which a farmer works land of an owner who provides equipment and seeds and receives a share of the crop |
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| A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North |
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| Where all slaves would be free |
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| A leading figure in the early years of the American steel industry |
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| A inventor. Made the cotton gin. |
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| To keep any one branch from gaining too much power |
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| a wide strip of land between Aisa and North America |
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| The branch of government that makes the nations laws. They also have the power to "lay and collect taxes" |
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| When the french foreign minister refused to meet with the americans and instead sent three agents who demanded a bribe and a loan for France from the Americans |
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| dealt out their own brand of justice without benefit of judge or jury |
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| a group that hated African Americans |
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| it assured the king of the colonists desire for peace |
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| the herding of cattle 1,000 miles or more to meet the railraods |
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| an orginazation for framers |
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| A party that claimed that the government, not private companies, should won the railroads and telegraph lines. Also wanted to replace the countrys gold-based currency system with a system based on free silver |
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| The branch of government, headed by the president, that carries out the nation's laws and policies |
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| the branch of government, including the federal court system,that interprets the nations laws |
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| Forcing people into service, as in the navy |
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| In San Franciso Bay. First stop for Asians |
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| a journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society |
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| People who helped the South |
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| It tried to stop settlement in the West |
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| an angentce to assit former slaves |
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| Divide powers between national goverment and states |
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| a mixture of song, dance, and comedy |
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| suggested both the extravegent wealth of the time and the terrible poverty that lag underneath |
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| a movement to reform society |
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| people who came from eastern and southern Europe |
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| Jurnalists that aided the reformes by exposing injustices and corruption |
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| When voters choose their own canadete |
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| a name that came from the papers popular comic strip |
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| Allowed citizens to place a measure or issue on the ballot in a state election |
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| Gave voters the opportunity to accept or reject measures that the state legislature enacted |
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| enabled voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officals from their jobs |
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| to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us |
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| preserved the balance between slave and free states in the Senate and brought about a lull in the bitter debate in Congress over slavery |
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| When Congress passed 12 amendments, and the states ratified 10 of them. In December 1791, these 10 amendments were added to the Constitution and became known as the..... |
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| Doubled the size of the United States |
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| They explored the Mississippi River |
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| It would oppose any new European colonies in the Americas |
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| the law that sought "to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraint and monopoly" |
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| Included various favors of the South. The new goverenment would give more aid to the region and withdraw all remaining troops from Southern states. |
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| This law aimed to eliminate what Americans regarded as the two weakness of the Native Americans |
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| The inhumane part of the triangular trade, shipping enslaved Africans to the West Indies |
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| A speech that President Lincoln expressed what the civil war had come to mean |
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| added a series of district courts to the federal court system |
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