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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Suffrage | the legal right to vote in public, political elections. |
| Evident | easy to see, notice, or understand |
| Spoils system | The spoils system is a political practice where a winning party distributes government jobs, appointments, and favors to supporters, friends, and relatives as rewards for campaign loyalty, rather than selecting candidates based on merit. |
| Caucus system | A caucus is a local, party-run meeting used to select presidential candidates, delegates, and party officials, emphasizing high voter engagement through in-person discussions and voting. |
| Secede | to formally withdraw from an organization, alliance, political union, or association. |
| Nativism | a political ideology and social sentiment that favors the interests of established native-born inhabitants over immigrants, often characterized by opposition to foreign influence, immigration restriction, and xenophobia |
| Predominantly | mainly, mostly, or for the most part, used to describe the primary, strongest, or most noticeable feature of something |
| Utopia | an imagined, idealized society, place, or state where conditions are perfect, characterized by happiness, harmony, and an absence of poverty, misery, or severe conflict. |
| philosophers | a person who seeks wisdom, studies knowledge, truth, and the nature of life, or offers rational theories on ethics, metaphysics, and logic. |
| Benevolent society | a nonprofit, often unincorporated organization dedicated to charitable, philanthropic, or mutual aid purposes, typically assisting the poor, sick, or members within a community. |
| Temperance | the virtue of moderation, self-restraint, and habitual balance in actions, thoughts, and feelings, particularly regarding appetites like food or alcohol |
| Penitentiary | a state or federal prison in the U.S. and Canada used to confine criminals convicted of serious crimes or felonies |
| Institution | a structured organization (like a university or bank), a long-standing custom (like marriage), or a facility for care (like a hospital). |
| Imposition | the forced, often unfair, application of a burden, rule, or tax upon someone. |
| Gradualism | the policy, theory, or approach of achieving change, development, or evolution slowly and steadily over time through small, cumulative stages, rather than through large, sudden, or violent changes. |
| Abolition | the act of officially ending, stopping, or abrogating a system, practice, or institution |
| Emancipation | the act or process of liberating someone from legal, social, or political subjection, control, or dependence. |
| Compensate | to make up for a loss, injury, or shortcoming (often using "for"), or to pay someone for work or goods. |
| Demonstration | the act of showing, proving, or explaining something through evidence, experiment, or practical application. |
| Second Great Awakening | a significant religious revival movement in the early 19th century (1790 - 1840s) emphasizing religion over secularism as well as personal faith and individualism which led to various social reform movements aiming to inspire a moral revival among Americ |
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