Created by KEVIN ASHE
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Question | Answer |
Enlightement | Age of Reason |
DOI | American letter telling Britian goodbye |
Natural Rights | Life Liberty Property |
Social Contract | If gov. doesnt protect people, people have the right to start a new one |
Soverighty | The right to rule |
Pop. Soverignty | Democracy |
Grivance | List of Complants |
NWO | Doc. created to govn. the northwest territory, created several rules in U.S. contsatution |
Territory | A piece of land controlled by U.S. not a state |
NW Territory | Big piece of land obtanded after revolution |
BOR | 1st 10 admentments |
Admendment | A change to a doc. |
13th adementment | Ended slavery |
Consatution | A list of what gov. can/not do |
Democracy | gov. run by people |
Republic | People elected to make desions for people |
Repulicanism | Represntive democracy |
Monocary | Ruled by king |
AOC | Americans 1st constatution |
Provision | Requirement of legal doc. |
Legislate | Law making |
Federal gov. | Nation gov |
Federalism | National & State gov. share power |
Federalist | Didnt want BOR supported U.S. constatution |
Anti- Fedrealist | Supporters of BOR not costatution |
Magna Carta | Doc. of 1215 president by jury |
EBOR | One biasis of Amercian BOR |
VDOR | Protected rights |
President | People do things the waty they were in the past |
Infrigment | Volaton rights |
Quartering act of 1765 | Made colinist provide housing for soliders |
Massacusttes GOv. Act | Limited colonist to asseble |
Due Process | Following process before jail time |
Ratify | Accept |
Tenement | Overcrowed housing |
Rual | Areas not touched by man |
Idustialism | Making things with machines |
Captialism | Buesnesses copeting for $ |
Agrarian | Farming |
Mechanization | Producing things with machines |
Indusrty | Corp. of making things |
Lassae Fair | GOv. leave it alone |
Socical Darwianism | Survival of the fitest |
Corp. | Bussenss that shares profit |
Monoploly | One big Corp. |
Sherwan Anti-Trust act | 1st law to limit monoploies |
Efficent | Eliminating waste |
Producvity | Mesure of input vs output |
Specialzation | Being skilled in one thing |
Interdependance | 2 companies reliaing on eachonter |
Immigration | People from other countries coming to U.S. |
Emigration | People leaving thier counrty |
Migration | Moving within a country |
Nativeism | Showing hated to immigrants |
Urbanization | Growing of cities |
Poplitical Curruptoion | Using a postion of power to cheat |
Suburbs | Cummunties outside of cities |
Policy | A course of action |
Legistation | Laws |
Anti trust legistation | Laws againt monoplies |
Labor | Work |
Labor unions | striking |
Collective Bargaining | Workers working together to talk with a manager |
Great Railroad Strike | Riots agsint railroads |
Pullman strike | Nationwide strike for railroads |
Homestead striker | Strike of U.S. steel workers |
Haymarket riot | Chcago labor protest |
Unregulated working con. | No gov. supervison |
Middle class | People who are average |
Labor legisltation | Laws about work |
Bussenss regulation | Gov telling bunssess what they can/can not do |
Political parties | Reblublicans Democrats Green Party |
Insert Groups | Group of people who share a common intest with gov. |
Public opinon | What people think |
The media | Newpapers TV |
Leisiure | Free time |
Standard of living | How hard or easy your life is |
Graft | Politioal curruption to gain $ |
Reform | A change for the better |
Populism | More power in ordinary people |
Progressivism | Fixing society |
Americanization | To be an american |
Public edu. | Gov. runs schools |
Envoremental Regulations | Laws about how the envoremnt is treated |
Conservation | Protecting and preserving envorment |
Sufferage | The right to vote |
Susan B Antohny | Fought for womens rights |
19th Ademendement | Women can vote |
Clations Antitrust act | Prevented monoploies and helped for labor unions |
Muckrakers | Jurnalist who exposed wrong doings |
THeodor rossevelt | President fought for conservation |
16th ademenment | Allowed income tax |
FRS | Cental bank to protect bank from failing |
Goo d Neighbor Policy | A plan to reduce U.S. imperialism in Latin America |
Nuetality Acts | Series of laws to limit U.S. involvement in WW2 |
Cash & Carry Policy | Allies could buy non- weapons from the U.S. as long as they paid cash and came to get them themselves |
Destroyer for Base Policy | U.S. gave Britain old warships in exchange for the right to establish military bases |
Lend Lease Policy | The U.S. lent arms to allies when they couldn´t afford to pay for them |
Atlantic Charter | British & U.S. plan for post-wwii world |
Declaration of the United Nations | Alliance agreement between U.S., Great Britain, USSR, & China |
Mobilization | Getting things ready |
Rationing | Limiting something ex food |
Bonds | Loans to the Government |
Scrap Drives | The Govt. paid Americans for scrap metal to use the materials for WWII. |
Victory Gardens | Americans were encouraged to grow their own food during WWII in order to save resources |
No Strike Pledges | Labor Unions agreed not to strike during WWII to keep production up |
Japanese Interment | 100,000 Japanese-Americans were put into prison camps during WWII |
Atomic Bomb | Splits atoms to create a huge blast |
Hiroshima & Nagasaki | Bombs dropped on Japan Cities by Americans |
Embargo | Ban trade with country |
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