Joseph's History Final
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- sectionalism
- giving loyalty to local interest
- states' rights
- more power to states, less to federal
- Seneca Falls Declaration
- plan of action for women's rights
- spoils system
- giving government jobs to political supporters
- Manifest Destiny
- doctrine stating U.S. was to span across the entire North America
- popular sovereignty
- voters who lived in a territory should decide for themselves whether or not to permit slavery
- inflation
- sharp rise in prices
- black codes
- codes limitting rights of black Americans
- impeach
- to accuse and try an elected official
- assimilate
- absorb and make similar to the dominate culture
- free-enterprise system
- private businesses that run in competition with each other
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Supreme Court case ruling that segregation is legal
- columnist
- newspaper writer who interprets columns or news
- imperialism
- policy of creating an empire by aquiring territory
- Rough Riders
- American Army unit
- progressives
- people who reform political, economical, and social problems
- militarism
- policy of building strong armed forces
- propaganda
- spreading of ideas that influence point of view
- anarchists
- person who opposes organized government
- materialism
- theory that posessions contributes to your social status and life values
- liberal
- favoring progressive and reform changes in government
- Holocaust
- Hitler ordering a mass killing of millions of people, mainly Jewish people
- Red Scare
- fear of Communism
- ethnic
- racial or cultural group
- National Road
- overland route to the West