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2018 Midterm ReviewB
terms to review for the January 2018 US midterm
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Lincoln, Abraham | led US through Civil War; Emancipation Proclamation; Gettysburg Address |
| Literacy Test | prove reading and writing abilty to get permission to vote |
| Louisiana Purchase | US bought mid-west territory from France; loose interpretation of Constitution |
| Manifest Destiny | US meant to extend from Atlantic to Pacific |
| Marbury v. Madison | established judicial review |
| Mayflower Compact | first government in the colonies |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | federal government is supreme over state government |
| Mercantilism | colonies exist to benefit the mother country |
| Mexican Cession | land US acquired from Mexico after Mexican-American war |
| Mississippi River | major route for trade and transport from the Great Lakes south |
| Missouri Compromise | agreement that states north of MO were free and south were slave |
| Missouri River | trade and transport to the west |
| Monopoly | complete control of an industry by one corporation |
| Muckrakers | journalists & photographers that showed the evils of industrialization. |
| Native Americans | were on the continent before Europeans; were forced to move many times |
| Nativist | someone that believes those that are already in US have privileges over immigrants |
| Paine, Thomas | wrote "Common Sense" to encourage colonists to fight for independence |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court ruled that separate is equal |
| Political | has to do with government |
| Poll Tax | having to pay a fee in order to vote (to keep blacks from voting) |
| Primary Source | first-hand account of what happened (photo, journal, diary) |
| Progressive Era | period of US history filled with reform |
| Pull Factor of Immigration | draws immigrants to leave and head to new country |
| Push Factor of Immigration | immigrants need to leave their homeland for a new country |
| Radical Republicans | wanted to punish the South for the Civil War |
| Reconstruction | time period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War |
| Reformers | people wanting to change ideas and situations in the US |
| Revolutionary War | colonists fought against Great Britain for independence |
| Roosevelt, Teddy | wanted to break up monopolies/trusts |
| Rural | countryside |
| Secondary Source | second-hand account of what happened (article, etc) |
| Sectionalism | North and South had different goals, economies, and priorities |
| Sharecroppers | gave owner crops in exchange for use of land to farm; led to poverty |
| Shays' Rebellion | fighting back against economic injustice; showed Articles of Confederation were weak |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | breaking up monopolies/trusts |
| Slavery | humans are property to buy and sell and force to work |
| Social | has to do with people and their interaction |
| States' Rights | southern states believed they had more power over choices than the federal government |
| Strike | refusal of workers to work |
| The North | industrial, manufacturing, populated cities, urban |
| The South | rural, plantations & farms, slavery |
| Triangular Trade | goods and slaves exchanged from Europe, Americas, and Africa |
| Unions | groups of workers joining together to fight for fair wages and conditions |
| Urban | cities |
| Urbanization | people moving to the cities |
| Veto | President can decide not to sign a bill into law (so it doesn't happen) |
| Washington, Booker T. | education for blacks, Tuskeegee Institute |
| Washington, George | first President; served 2 terms, had a cabinet (unwritten constitution) |
| Whiskey Rebellion | protest against a federal tax on Whiskey |
| Zenger, Peter | fought for freedom of speech/press |
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