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The history of the american government
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9th Grade
04/02/2012

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Anti-Federalist
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Wanted stronger government in individual states and a weak central government.
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Federalist
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Create a strong central government.
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Nationalism
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Pride in one’s country.
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Monroe Doctrine
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States that America should not get involved in with the wars of other countries.
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Manifest Destiny
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The 19th-century idea that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
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Popular Sovereignty
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Dominion of the people.
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Southern Defiance
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The south defied President Johnson / Congress tried to impeach him.
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Black Codes
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A set of laws used to control blacks.
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Jim Crow Laws
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placed voting restrictions on blacks
made segregation legal
began sharecropping
exerted white supremacy
no arms for blacks
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League of Nations
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An effort to promote international cooperation and achieve international peace and security / led into the United Nations.
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Imperialism
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A nation’s intent to dominate other countries.
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Social Darwinism
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A form of imperialism it tried to justify political conservatism and racism as well as discourage invention and reform.
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Ethnocentrism
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The evaluating of other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one’s own cultures.
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Progressivism
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Favored change, new liberal ideas, and social reform.
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Temperance
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Self-restraint.
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Great Migration
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In the 1910s-20s, blacks left the south for the north to get away from sharecropping, tenant farming, peonage.
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Mass Production
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Producing large quantities of something by an automated, mechanical process.
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Sectionalism
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A loyalty to one’s own interests in religion, section, and county rather than the nation as a whole.
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Sharecropping
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a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land / a bad system resulting in increased segregation oppression on blacks.
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