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Federal Judiciary Act   The Judiciary Act of 1789 established the lower federal courts  
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Cabinet   the executive and policy-making body of a country, consisting of all government ministers or just the senior ministers  
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Tariff   A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.  
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Foreign Policy   a policy governing international relations.  
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Political Party   A political group that agrees on certain things  
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George Washington   Washington: 1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799).  
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Alexander Hamilton   United States statesman and leader of the Federalists; as the first Secretary of the Treasury he establish a federal bank.  
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Thomas Jefferson   3rd President of the United States; chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.  
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John Adams   2nd President of the United States (1735-1826).  
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Marbury V. Madison   Marbury v. Madison, is a landmark case in United States law. It formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States.  
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Unconstitutional   Not in accordance with a political constitution, esp. the US Constitution, or with procedural rules.  
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Francis Scott Key   United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812  
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James Madison   4th President of the United States; member of the Continental Congress and rapporteur at the Constitutional Convention in 1776.  
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Judicial Review   Review by the Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act.  
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Louisiana Purchase   The territory sold by France to the US in 1803, comprising the western part of the Mississippi valley.  
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Impressment   the act of coercing someone into government service.  
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Judiciary Act of 1801   The Midnight Judges Act (also known as the Judiciary Act of 1801) represented an effort to solve an issue in the U.S. Supreme Court.  
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Meriwether Lewis   American explorer who accompanied William Clark exploring the Louisiana Purchase.  
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William Clark   American explorer who accompanied Meriwether lewis exploring the Louisiana Purchase.  
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Sacagawea   An American-Indian who guided Lewis and Clark in the Louisiana Purchase.  
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Industrial Recolution   The replacing of hand work with machine work.  
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Factory System   The factory system was a method of manufacturing first adopted in England at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the 1750s.  
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Interchangeable Parts   Parts developed to all be the same  
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Henry Clay   "The Great Compromiser" wrote many compromises  
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Cotton Gin   An invention made to get the seeds out of cotton  
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Sectionalism   States are more important than nationalism  
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Nationalism   Pride for your nation  
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Eli Whitney   Great inventor for his time  
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American System   consisted of three mutually reinforcing parts: a tariff to protect and promote American industry; a national bank to foster commerce; and federal subsidies for roads, canals, and other 'internal improvements' to develop profitable markets for agriculture.  
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Samuel Morse   Invented morse code  
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Missouri Compromise   an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories.  
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Monroe Doctorine   Kept out European settlers from America  
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James Monroe   5th President of the United States; author of the Monroe Doctrine  
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Robert Fulton   American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815).  
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Jacksonian Democracy   Ruled by the people with out big city banks  
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spoils system   Whoever is the winner gets all the prizes like whatever cabinet members he wants  
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Indian Removal Act   The Indian Removal Act, part of a United States government policy known as Indian removal, was signed into law by President Andrew.  
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Trail of Tears   A path that the Cherokee Indians traveled when they were exiled  
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Tariff of Abominations   The Tariff of 1828, was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828 designed to protect industry in the north.  
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John C. Calhoun   John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was the seventh Vice President of the United States and a leading Southern leader  
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Doctrine of nullification   Dealt with states rights' and what they could and couldn't do  
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secession   Formally withdrawing from the union  
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Panic of 1837   all the banks lost their money and people lost their money as well  
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Andrew Jackson   7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815, and also expanded the power of the presidency.  
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John Quincy Adams   6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848).  
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depression   A time of sadness  
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land speculator   Someone who looks to buy large amounts of land  
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Santa Fe Trai   A route, established in the 1820s, from St. Louis in Missouri to Santa Fe in New Mexico.  
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Oregon Trail   A trail for settlers that led to Oregon  
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Manifest destiny   The belief that we need to expand westward  
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo   The treaty that gained the US mexican land after the Mexican war  
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Mexican cession   Land gained from the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo  
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California Gold Rush   People found gold in California and caused a national craze for gold  
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emigrant   A person who leaves their own country to settle permanently in another.  
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immigrant   A person who comes to a certain country  
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Push-pull factors   Factors that make you want to leave a country or move to it  
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famine   An extreme shortage of food  
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prejudice   Judging something before you really know it  
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Brigham Young   The founder of mormanism  
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James Polk   11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California.  
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civil disobedience   Peacefully disobeying the law  
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transcendentalism   A 19th-century idealistic philosophical and social movement that taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity.  
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temperance movement   A temperance movement is a social movement against the use of alcoholic beverages.  
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labor union   Group of workers  
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strike   Not working for a reason  
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abolition   Anti-Slavery  
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underground railroad   A secret organization that helped free slaves  
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Seneca Falls Convention   The Seneca Falls Convention was an early and influential women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York.  
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suffrage   People's Rights  
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Horace Mann   United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).  
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Dorthea Dix   Fought for the reform of insane asylums and prisons.  
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Frederick Douglass   A former slave who spoke out against slavery.  
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Sojourner Truth   United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and women's rights.  
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Harriet Tubman   Ran the underground railroad which freed slaves  
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton   United States suffragist and feminist; called for reform of the practices that perpetuated sexual inequality (1815-1902).  
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Wilmot Proviso   The Wilmot Proviso, one of the major events leading to the Civil War, would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico  
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Compromise of 1850   Defused a confrontation between slave states and the northern states  
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin   Book written about Southern slavery  
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Fugitive Slave Act   North had to return freed slaves`  
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popular sovereignty   Popular Vote  
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Kansas-Nebraska Act   The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.  
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Dred Scott v. Sanford   Ruled that slaves are property and dont have rights  
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Harpers Ferry   Scene of where john brown fought for slaves  
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Confederate States of America   The southern states that seceded from the union  
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Stephen Douglas   an American politician from the western state of Illinois  
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Harriet Beecher Stowe   United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896).  
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John Brown   Tried to lead a revolt for slaves  
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Abraham Lincoln   President during the civil war  
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Jefferson Davis   American statesman; president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.  
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Ft. Sumter   A historic site in the harbor of Charleston in South Carolina. It is the site of the beginning of the Civil War 1861.  
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blockade   An act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.  
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William T. Sherman   William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author.  
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1st Bull Run   Bull Run: either of two battles during the American Civil War (1861 and 1862); Confederate forces defeated the Federal army in both battles.  
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cavalry   Soldiers who fought on horseback.  
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John Wilkes Booth   Assassinated President Lincoln  
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Battle of Antietam   The Battle of Antietam (also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South), fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest battle in the Civil War.  
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Emancipation Proclamation   Freed the slaves  
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54th Massachusetts Regiment   The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the civil war made of free slaves  
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Battle of Gettysburg   Turning point of the Civil War  
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Gettysburg Address   A speech delivered on November 18, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the national cemetery on the site of the battle of Gettysburg  
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Siege of Vicksburg   Vicksburg: a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered.  
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Appomattox Court House   The site where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant  
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Robert E. Lee   Confederate Leader  
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Ulysses S. Grant   Union Leader and later president  
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13th Amendment   Freed the slaves  
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14th Amendment   In 1866, the amendment was passed and gave blacks the right of citizenship in America.  
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15th Amendment   the constitutional amendment passed after the Civil War that guaranteed blacks the right to vote.  
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