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Interest

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an extra sum of money that borrowers have to repay creditors in return for the loan

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Jay's Treaty

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Treaty signed in 1794 between the US and bBritain in which Britain sought to improve trade relations and agreed to withdraw from forts in the northwest territory.

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loose construction

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belief that the government can do anything that the constitution does not prohibit

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neutral

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not taking sides in a conflict or dispute

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strict construction

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belief that the goavernment should not do anything that the constitution does not specifically say it can do

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tariff

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tax on foreign goods imported into a country

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Battle of New Orleans

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battle in 1815 between american and british troops for control of New Orleans, ending in an american victory

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depression

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a severe economic downturn marked by a decrease in business activity, widespread unemployment, and falling prices and wages

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impressments

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policy of forcing people into military or public service

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Missouri Compromise

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1820 agreement calling for the admission of Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and outlawing slavery in future states to be created North of 36 30 N lattitude

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Treaty of Ghent

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agreement, signed in 1814, that ended the War of 1812

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amend

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to revise

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checks and balances

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system in which each of the branches of the federal government can check the actions of the other branches

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federal system of government

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a system in which power is shared among state and national authorities

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separation of power

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the constitutional allotting of power within the federal government among the legislative, executive, a judicial branches

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Three-Fifths Compromise

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Compromise at the Constitutional Convention calling for three-fifths of a states slave population to be countd for the purposes of legislative representation

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veto

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to prevent from becoming a law

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popular sovereignty

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policy of letting the people in a territory decide whether slavery would be allowed there

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Fugitive Slave Act

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part of the compromise of 1850, a law ordering all citizens of the US to assist in the return of of escapeed slaves

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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1854 law that called for the creation of these two new territories, and stated that the citizens in each territory should decide whether slavery would be allowed there

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Upper South

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designation used in the civil war encompassing the staes of virginia, north carolina, tennessee, arkansas

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Confederate States of American

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association of seven seceding southern states, formed in 1861

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prejudice

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an unreasonable, usually unfavorale opinion of another group

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nativism

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a policy of favoring native-born americans over immigrants

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secessionist

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person who wanted the south to secede

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Compromise of 1850

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agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories

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Border states

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in the civil war the states between the north and the south: delaware, mayland, kentucky, and missouri

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annex

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to join or attach, as in the joining of a new territoy to an existing country

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republican virtues

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virtues the american people would need to govern themselves, such as self-reliance, industry, frugality, harmony, and the ability to sacrifice individual needs for the communtiy

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contraband

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items seized from the enemy during wartime

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greenbacks

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name given to the national paper

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Emancipation Proclamation

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a presendential decree, by President Lincoln, effective Jan. 1, 1863, that freed slaves in Conferderate held territory

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writ of habeas corpus

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legal protection requiring that a court determine whether a person is lawfully imprisioned

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anti-Federalist

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opponents of the Constitution: opposed the concept of a strong central government

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Bill of Rights

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first ten amendments to the constituion

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faction

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group organized around a common interest and concerned only with furthering that interest

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Federalist

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supporters of the constitution during the debate over its ratification; favored a strong national government

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ratify

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approve or sanction

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John C. Calhoun

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Senator of South Carolina that declared that the south would not give up its liberty to save the union

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Robert E. Lee

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general of confederate forces during the civil war

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John Brown

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An abolitionist that led the attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia

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Jefferson Davis

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elected president of the confederate states of america; from mississippi

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Stephen Douglas

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senator of illinios who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

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Henry Clay

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He proposed to congress the compromise of 1850; the senator of kentucky

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Abraham Lincoln

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He opposed slavery on moral grounds in debates with Stephen Douglas; a republican; became 16th president of the US

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Charles Sumner

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Senator of Massachusetts who gave a powerful antislavery speech entitled ''The Crime Against Kansas'' in congress

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John C. Fremont

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He helped to defeat the Mexican army in california

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William Henry Seward

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republican antislavery leader during the 1860s; acquired Alaska in 1867 as Secretary of State

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Roger Taney

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chief justice of the supreme court who wrote an opinion in the 1857 Dred Scott case that declared the Missouri compromise unconstitutional

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Great Plains

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vast grassland between the mississippi river and the rocky mountains

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Texas War for Independence

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successful revolt by texans against mexican rule in 1835-1836

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Battle of the Alamo

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capture by mexican troops of a texas held mission in san antonio in 1836

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nomads

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people who move their homes regulary usually in serach of available food sources

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presidios

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fort built in southwest by spanish

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pass

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a low place in a mountain range that allowes travelers to cross over the other side

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manifest destiny

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argrument that it was the undeniable fate of the US to expand across North America

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cede

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to surrender officailly or unformaly

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mountain men

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an american fur trader who explored the rocky mountains and regions farther west in the early 1800s

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trans-Appalachia

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area west of the appalacian mountans

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Gadsden Purchase

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1853 purchase by the US of southwestern lands from mexico

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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treaty signed in 1848 by the Us and Mexico, ending the mexico war

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agenda

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list of items to accomplish

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bureaucracy

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departments that make up a large organization, such as the government

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embargo

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a ban or restriction on trade

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Louisiana Purchase

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Purchase by the US of the Louisiana territoy form France in 1803

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Lewis and Clark expedition

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journey by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark through the Louisiana territory from 1804-1806

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constitution

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a written plan of government

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executive branch

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the part of the government that executes, or carries out laws

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judicial branch

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the part of the government that decides if laws have been broken

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legislative branch

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the part of a government that makes the laws

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republic

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government run by the people through their elected representatives

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specie

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gold or silver coin

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McCulloch vs. Maryland

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"Bank of the US Case" A Maryland law required federally chartered banks to use only a specail paper to print money, which amounted to a tax. McCulloh, the cashier of the Baltimore branch of the bank, refused to use the paper, claiming that states could not tax the federal government. The court declared the Maryland Law unconstitutional.

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Gibboins vs. Ogden

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This case examined the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.

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Monroe Doctrine

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policy of president James Monroe stating that the US would consider any European interference in the nations of the Americas as an unfriendly act

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Indian Removal Act

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1830 Law calling for the president to give Native Americans land in parts of the Louisiana Purchase in exchange for Land taken from them in the East.

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Trail of Tears

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forced march of 15,000 Cherokee from their homes in the southeast to western reservations from 1837 to 1838

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spoils system

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patronage system under president Andrew Jackson

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Tariff of 1828

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A high tariff on imports that benefited the industrial North while forcing Southerners to pay higher prices on manufactured goods; called the "Tariff of Abominations" by south

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secede

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formally withdraw from a political organization; southern states seceded from the US to form the confederacy in late 1860 and early 1861

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abolitionist movement

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Movement to end slavery

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emancipation

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the freeing of enslaved people

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Underground Railroad

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network of people who helped fugitives from slaverey excape into the north and canada

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gag rule

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rule passed in 1836 by southern representatives in congress that prevented antislavery petitions form being considered by the house for eight years

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Lower South

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states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina

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Fort Sumter

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Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War

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transcendentalism

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intellectual and philosophical movement of the mid-1800s esserting that the nature of reality can be learned only by intuition rather than through experience

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temperance movement

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campaign against alcohol consumption; began as part of the middle-class reform movements of the 1800s

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segregate

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Forced separation, often times by race

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abstinence

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refraining from some activity, such as drinking

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utopian community

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small societies whose members seek perfect social and political conditions

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Alien and Sedition Acts

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acts passed by federalists giving the government power to imprison or deport foreign citizens and prosecute critics of the government

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nullification

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a states refusal to recognize or uphold a federal law

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XYZ affair

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incident of the late 1790s in which French secret agents demanded a bribe and a loan to France in lieu of negotiating a dispute over the Jay Treaty and other issues

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Virginia and Kentucky resolution

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Resolutions passed in 1798 that attacked the Alien and Sedition Acts as being unconstitutional

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administration

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a presidents term in office, or the group of officials that makes up the executive branch, including the president

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Cabinet

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heads of the major departments of the US governement who advise the President

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domestic affairs

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Issues relating to a country's internal matters

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inauguration

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official swearing-in ceremony

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precedent

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custom arising from previous practice rather than a written law

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