american studies 1
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- Mudslinging
- an attempt to ruin an opponent's reputation with insults
- Trail of Tears
- Path followed by Cherokees when they were forced off their lands
- Bill Of Rights
- the first 10 amendments to the constitution(ratified in 1791)
- Popular Sovereignty
- The concept that a States people should vote whether to be a slave state or Free
- Embargo
- a government order imposing a trade barrier
- Monroe Doctrine
- A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere.
- Fugitive Slave Act
- Stringent set of laws that allows Southern slave-catchers to pursue slaves into the north.
- Assimilation
- the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
- Corrupt Bargain
- Clay threw his support to Adams in election of 1824and in return Clay became Sec of State
- Cabinet
- chief advisers of the president
- Spoils system
- the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power
- Nullification
- the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress
- Mexican Cession
- Lands sold by Mexico to the US following the Mexican War
- Free-soilers
- abolitionists who believed in "free soil" in the period of "Bleeding Kansas"
- Border States
- slaveholding states still in the Union
- Anaconda Plan
- three-part Union strategy to win the Civil War
- Fredrick Douglass
- former slave who became a well-know speaker, writer and reformer
- Two-Party System
- a political system consisting chiefly of two major parties, more or less equal in strength
- Nativism
- a policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones
- Freeport Doctrine
- Idea authored by Stephen Douglas that claimed slavery could only exist when popular sovereignty said so
- Federalists
- supporters of the stronger central govt. who advocated the ratification of the new constitution
- Harriet Tubman
- Famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad
- Bleeding Kansas
- Nickname given to the Kansas Terrietory because of the bloody violence there
- Fort Sumter
- Union fort in Charleston, South Carolina
- Dred Scott
- United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state