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Person who wanted to end slavery completely in the United States. People like Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garisson.
Abolitionists
Proposal made by Ben Franklin to create one government for the Colonies in response to the French and Indian War.
Albany Plan of Union
Program for economic growth promoted by Henry Clay in the early 1800’s; called for high tariffs on imports and federal funds to improve transportation.
American System
A person who learns a trade or craft from a master craftsman.
Apprentice
Virginia town that was the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865.
Appomattox Court House
A written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect.
bill of rights
Certificate that promises to repay money loaned, plus interest, on a certain date.
Bond
The shutting of a port to keep people or supplies from coming in or out.
Blockade
A 1773 protest in which colonists dressed up like Indians and dumped British tea into Boston Harbor.
The Boston Tea Party
A representative to the Virginia colonial legislature.
Burgess
Crop that was grown and sold for a profit.
Cash Crop
Type of road shown here.
Corduroy Road
The willingness to work for the good of the nation or community.
Civic Virtue
The idea that people have a right to disobey laws they consider to be unjust if their consciences demand it.
Civil Disobedience
Agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave act was passed.
The Compromise of 1850
A person who can not pay the money that he or she owes.
Debtor
Ruler with absolute power and authority.
Dictator
Supporters of Andrew Jackson, including frontier farmers and factory workers.
Democrats
A period of slow business activity, falling prices and wages and high unemployment.
Depression
The right of people accused of crime to go through the process of law in the United States.
Due Process
Official religion of a country.
Established Church
Group of electors from every state that meet once every four years to choose the President and Vice. President.
Electoral College
Lincolns 1863 declaration freeing slaves in the Confederacy.
Emancipation Proclamation
A supporter of the Constitution who favored a strong national government.
Federalist
One of the more than 80, 000 people who went to California during the “Gold Rush”.
49’er
Highest social class in the 13 colonies.
The Gentry
Strip of land in present day New Mexico and Arizona that the United States paid Mexico $10 million.
Gadsden Purchase
Plan at the Constitutional Convention that settled the differences between large and small states plans for representation in Congress.
Great Compromise
An 1824 case in which the Supreme Court upheld the power of the federal government to regulate interstate commerce.
Gibbons Vs Ogden
Law that excused a voter from taking a literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867.
Grandfather Clause
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