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Person who goes to another country to live
Immigrant
Bringing water to dry lands in order to grow plants
Irrigation
Practice of forcing people into military service. This was a major cause that led us into the War of 1812.
Impressment
A person who agrees to work without wages for a period of time in exchange for passage to the Colonies.
Indentured Servant
Gathering of New England delegates during the War of 1812 to protest the war by threatening to secede from the Union.
Hartford Convention
Act of publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a persons reputation.
Libel
Idea that government should play as little role as possible in business.
Laissez Faire
Young women who worked in the Lowell Mills in Massachusetts during the Industrial Revolution.
Lowell Girls
Laws that were designed to separate people of different races in public places in the South.
Jim Crow Laws
An 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and giving settlers there the right of Popular Sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Soldier who fights for pay for a foreign country.
Mercenary
English document that said Kings and Queens had to obey the law and people had basic rights
Magna Charta
Foreign policy document that said European countries had to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine
Belief that America should spread across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Manifest Destiny
1819 Supreme Court case that said states had no right to interfere with federal institutions within their borders.
McCulloch v Maryland
Pride or devotion in ones country.
Nationalism
A natural waterway through or across North America.
Northwest Passage
Law that allowed Americans to carry on trade with all countries except England and France.
Nonintercourse Act
A 1793 statement by Washington that said the US would not get involved in European wars.
Neutrality Act
The act passed by South Carolina that declared the 1832 tariff illegal and said that if they felt a law was unconstitutional then they did not have to obey it.
Nullification Act
A formal written request.
Petition
An act or decision that sets an example for others to follow.
Precedent
A tax required before a person could vote.
Poll Tax
A principle of the Constitution that the people have the right to create, alter or abolish their government.
Popular Sovereignty
A movement to reform the Catholic Church in the 1500’s that led to the creation of many different churches.
Protestant Reformation
To approve
Ratify
Loyalty to ones area in a country.
Sectionalism
Person who rents a plot of land and farms in in exchange for a share of the crop.
Sharecropper
Practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs.
Spoils System
An 1848 meeting at which leaders of the women’s rights movement called for equal rights for women.
Seneca Falls Convention