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| gettysburg adderss | speech given by abraham lincolm which captured the spirit of liberty and morality ideally held by citizens of ademocacy. that ideal was threatened by the cicil war |
| mercantilism | a set of economic principles based on policies which stress goverment regualtion of economic activites to benefit the home country |
| representative goverment | power is helf by the people and exercised through the efforts of representatives elected by the people |
| protective tariff | a tax on an imported product instituted to protect local industries |
| republicanism | a philosophy of limited goverment with elected representatives serving at the will of the people. goverment is based on consent of the governed. |
| reform movements | work to change society for the better. focused on improving conditions for the poor, enslaved, imprisoned, women, and disabled. |
| unalienable rights | these rights are fundamental ro natural rights guaranteed to people naturally instead of by the law. they include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. |
| judicial review | provides for the judicial branch of the goverment to determine if laws are sonstitutional |
| cicil disobedience | henery david thoreau advocated this process of defying codes of conduct within a community or ingnoring the policies and goverment of a state or nation when the civil lawas are unjust |
| plantation system | a system of agricultural productin based on large scale land ownership and the exploitation of labor and the environment this system focused on the production of cash crops and utilized slave labor |
| popular soverignty | the concept that political power rests with the people who can create, alter, and abolish goverment. people express themselves through voting and free participation in goverment. |
| civic virtue | people who exemplify this quality go beyound their obligations by taking an active role in improving the community and the experiences of other members of the community |
| manifest destiny | this expression was popular in the 1840's many people believed that the united states was destined to secure territory from "sea to sea," from the atlantic to the pacific ocean this rationale drove the acquisition of territory |
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