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| 5540918951 | American republic | refers to the U.S.A. and the idea that it protects individual civil liberties as well as represents the people's will | 0 | |
| 5540923977 | African chattel | Africans and their descendants were forced to work for masters in the English colonies without political or economic freedoms | 1 | |
| 5540927715 | American System | an early 19th century vision of an economically self-sufficient America that would see government funded internal improvements paid for with higher protective tariffs | 2 | |
| 5540933230 | Anglicization | English political, religious, and economic traits would transfer to the New World through trans-Atlantic culture and Protestant evangelism | 3 | |
| 5540937217 | Antebellum | a period in American history prior to Civil War which generally falls between 1800-1860 | 4 | |
| 5540942034 | assimilation | foreign born immigrants acquire the cultural traits of a society they have migrated to | 5 | |
| 5540945223 | baby boom | following WWII there was a very large increase in the number of children in America | 6 | |
| 5540947808 | backcountry culture | this frontier American culture combined aspects of both the Eastern seaboard society with the unique aspects of the wilderness | 7 | |
| 5540952269 | British Empire | by the turn of the 20th century the island of Great Britain and her vast colonial holdings stretched from North and South America to the Pacific ports of China | 8 | |
| 5540957455 | bounded labor | people, either voluntarily (indentured servants) or involuntarily (slaves), legally tied to working for another person | 9 | |
| 5540961716 | capitalism | economic system marked by private ownership of factories and resources and is based on free trade and competition whose formal principles were laid down in Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" | 10 | |
| 5540967755 | central goverment | this supreme political institution is invested with more power than the smaller regional or state governments that fall under its jurisdiction | 11 | |
| 5540974787 | 13th, 14th, and 15th | civil war amendments | 12 | |
| 5540974789 | collective security | several countries joining together in a defensive alliance for mutual protection against perceived enemies | 13 | |
| 5540982445 | columbian exchange | plants, animals and material goods were transferred b/w the Western and eastern Hemispheres b/c of the discovery of the New World by CC in 1492 | 14 | |
| 5540993701 | detente | during this period of relaxed tension between the US and the Soviet Union in the early 70s, the Cold War saw a reduction of armaments in the SALT I and ABM Treaties | 15 | |
| 5541000606 | encomienda system | during Spanish colonization of the 16th and 17th century, Spain established this plantation-based agriculture system which included forced labor extracted from Native-Americans and later enslaved Africans | 16 | |
| 5541009953 | European Romanticism | movement that rejected many precepts of the Enlightenment | 17 | |
| 5541013081 | federalism | principle that outlines the division of power between state and federal governments | 18 | |
| 5541020613 | NAFTA | largest attempt to reduce tariffs and economic restrictions between countries and is intended to stimulate economic activity (free trade agreement) | 19 | |
| 5541026900 | Great Society | Lyndon Johnson's domestic social reform program featured the passage of Medicare and Medicaid and the addition of a new cabinet agency called the Department of Housing and Urban Development | 20 | |
| 5541037354 | holding companies | these companies exist solely on paper and control the majority of stock of an actual company | 21 | |
| 5541039495 | homogeneous society | society that enforces religious, cultural or racial conformity upon its inhabitants | 22 | |
| 5541060532 | neoconservatism | the resurgence of former conservative ideals following the implementation of the Great Society in the 1960s | 23 | |
| 5541068749 | pueblo revolt | 1680 revolt by Indians of the Southwestern part of the contemporary US successfully removed Spanish control for 12 years | 24 | |
| 5541077837 | shared labor market | this term refers to the sharing of labor between eastern and western hemispheres during colonial period | 25 | |
| 5541083802 | semisubsistence agriculture | in the frontier regions due to terrain or climate the ability to farm was very limited and thus a farmer needed to hunt and gather as well as farm in order to survive | 26 | |
| 5541088343 | settlement houses | privately run organizations in late 19th and early 20th century that operated in urban areas and assisted immigrants with assimilating into the new world by providing education, housing and other vital services | 27 | |
| 5541112882 | sun belt | this region saw tremendous growth following WWII due to: 1. low tax rate 2. invention of air-conditioning 3. business-friendly environment | 28 | |
| 5541114493 | tidewater | wealthier, coastal areas of Virginia (as opposed to back country) | 29 | |
| 5541120021 | whigs | political party born in 1830's in opposition to Jackson, it supported a stronger national government as proposed in the American System | 30 | |
| 5541124006 | xenophobia | fear that a foreigner's beliefs or cultural values will undermine and destroy the traditional fabric of the American society | 31 |
