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Quiz 6
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mexican War | over competing territorial claims and desires |
| Missouri Compromise | allowed the enterance of MO as a slave state and MA as a free. the Louisiana Purchase was divided at 36'30 |
| Monroe Doctrine | policy declared that the Western Hemisphere was closed to furhter European colonization & US would stay out of Euro. matters |
| National Bank | a bank chartered by the govt. and having the power to act on the govt's behalf in financial matters(Hamilton's Plan) |
| Nullification | doctrine that said the states had the right to declare null and void acts of national legislature |
| Plantation | a large farm which relied on the commercial cultivation of a cash crop using slave labor |
| Popular Sovereignty | concept that allowed the settlers of a territory to decide whether or not slavery would be permitted |
| Radical Reconstruction/ Reconstruction | time after the CW which the congress used it's powers to punish the southern states/ rebuilding of the nation after the CW |
| Secession | doctrine with said states could withdraw from the nation and form a new nation--> uncons. thanks to the CW |
| Sectionalism | growing cultural and economic differences divided the nations along geographic borders (CW) |
| Segregation | legal discrimination and separation--> Jim Crowsism |
| Sharecroppers | tenent farmers who rented land from large landowners and became indebted to them |
| Solid South | patterns of voters in the south voting for democrats after the CW |
| Tariff | tax on imported goods |
| Transcontinental Railroad | first railroad to cross the great plains and the rocky mountains connecting the west to the east |
| Underground Railroad | network of help for escaped slaves in the 1850's |
| War of 1812 | US vs GB over many issues; seen as 2nd revolution |
| Yellow Jounalism | late 1800's style of journalism which emphasized sensational headlines and stories |