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amer. history sem. 1
1 semester final
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Emancipated | The act or process of freeing enslaved people |
| 14 amendment | Freed slaves |
| 15 amendment | Anyone can vote |
| Freedmans Bureau | To feed & clothe war people in the south |
| Impeachment | Formally charge a public official w/ misconduct in office |
| Ku K;ux Klan | People who terrorized Republican supporters insutitions manners and habbits |
| Rations | Giving out of scarce items on limited bases |
| Reconstruction | Reorganization & rebuilding or former confederate states after the civil war |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| 13 amendment | Out laws slavery |
| Homestead | method of acquiring a piece of us public land by living & cultivating on it. |
| Laissez-faire | Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nations econmey |
| Inflation | Loss of value of money |
| Deflation | decline in the volume of available money or credit that results in lower prices & increases buying |
| Corporation | An organization that is authorized by law to carry on an activity but treated as though it were a single person |
| Labor unions | An organization of workers formed for purpose of advancing its members interests |
| monopoly | total control of a type of industry by one person/ country |
| trust | a combo. of firms or corps formed by a legal agreement especially to reduce competition |
| Horizontal integration | The combining of competing firms into one corporation |
| vertical intergration | combo. of companies that supply equipment & services needed for a particular industry |
| angle island | opened a Baraks called _____ |
| assimilate | to absorb a group into the cultre of a larger population |
| Ellis island | tiny island in New York harbor |
| lassez-faire | policy that gov should interfere as little as possible in the nations econmey |
| nativism | hospitality towards immigrants |
| populism | political movement that crosse party |
| tenements | multi family apartment, usually dark. crowded & parley meeting minimum living standards. |
| impearlism | the actions used by one nation to excersise political or econmic control over a smaller or weaker nation |