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Flashcards by KEVIN ASHE, updated more than 1 year ago
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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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