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Question | Answer |
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what was signed on July 4, 1776 | Declaration of Independence |
what was written in 1787 | Constitution of the United States |
who purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803 | Thomas Jefferson |
what was fought from 1861-1865 | Civil War |
what was a person who wanted to end slavery in the United States | Abolitionist |
what tax placed on goods from another country to protect the home industry | Protective Tariff |
what is a strong sense of loyalty to a state or section instead of to the whole country | Sectionalism |
what is tax on goods brought into another country | Tariff |
what is the belief that the Unite dStates should own all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. | Manifest Destiny |
what was the campaign against the sale or drinking of alcohol | Temperance Movement |
Representative Government | A system of government in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them |
Republic | A nation in which voters choose representatives to govern them |
The three branches of governement | Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, and the Executive Branch |
Checks and Balances | A system set up by the constitution in wheich each branch of the federal government has the power to check or control the actions of the other branches |
Free Enterprise | The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal government regulation. |
Federalism | the sharing of power between the states and the national government |
Popular Sovereignty | the practice of allowing each territory to decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery |
Amend | to change |
Unalienable Rights | rights that cannot be given up or taken away or transferred. Life, liberty and the pursue o Happiness are some of those rights |
Democracy | form of government that is run or ad by the people, giving people the supreme power. |