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morgan vocab set 7/8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| popular sovereignty | the concept that political power rests with the people who can create, alter, and abolish gov |
| primary sources | evidence produced by someone who participated in an event or lived during the time being studied |
| a protective tariff | a tax on an imported product instituted to protect local industries |
| reconstruction | post civil war period 1865-77 armed occupation of the south states forced adherence to federal authority |
| john c Calhoun | a leading supporter of states rights movement of south us supported slavery believed a state had the right to secede from the union |
| Radical Reconstruction congress | us congress took a radical extreme position against the south states after the civil war pushed more radical agenda on them than Lincoln wanted |
| Patrick Henry | member of the Continental congress who said "give me liberty or give me death" |
| reform movements | efforts to reform society or change it for the better such as the temperance abolition and suffrage movements |
| removal and settlement of native Americans | land was important to the us during the 1800s native americans occupied a big portion of this land it was gov policy to force them off their land and resettle them somewhere else |
| secondary sources | descriptions or interpretations prepared by people who were not involved in the events described they provide useful background material and context for info gained from primary sources |
| slave trade | 1490s-1700s the sale and transportation of people from africa all over the Americas all american states outlawed this in the late 1700s |
| tariff policies(taxes) | gov raise operating funds by charging a tax on imported goods these taxes place foreign merchants at a disadvantage by making their goods more expensive |
| commerce | the buying and selling of goods done on a large scale between cities,states,and countries in trade |
| doctrine | a rule, theory, or principal of law. in gov it's used to describe a nations policy towards another nation |
| war of 1812 | sometimes called the 2nd war of independence; a dispute where great britian invaded the us, burned the white house. us almost lost |
| Washington farewell address | in 1796, Washington decided not to pursue a 3rd term as president in his address he spoke about the dangers of getting involved in European affairs and the threat of rising political parties |
| Henry clay | known as the great comprimiser when dealing with slavery issues between the north and south |
| Jefferson Davis | states rights activist became the first and only president of the confederate states of america |
| king George lll | king of England in 1760: very strong monarch; very repressive against the the colonist; lost the revolutionary war; could never get over the loss; later in life he suffered from mental illness |
| Ben Franklin | founding fathers, inventor, great thinker |
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