| A | B |
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| federalism | division of power between the states and the national government |
| Reserved powers | powers granted to the states; marriage licenses |
| Implied powers | powers granted to the federal government;interstate commerce |
| Concurrent powers | powers granted to both the state and federal government; taxes |
| Executive branch | enforces the law; President |
| Judicial branch | interprets and applies the laws; Supreme Court |
| Legislative branch | make the laws; Congress |
| George Washington's Farewell Address | advised country to stay neutral and to avoid political alliances |
| manifest destinty | was the fate of the U.s to expand westward to the Pacific |
| Marbury v Madison | established judicial review; more power to the federal government |
| Louisiana Purchase | gave U.S. access to the Missippi and the port at New Orleans; doubled the size of the u.s.; Thomas Jefferson-Loosely interpreted the constitution |
| Missouri Compromise | Missouti admitted as a slave state, Maine admitted as a free state |
| Monroe Doctrine | opposition to efforts by any outside power to control a nation in the Western Hemisphere;Latin america |
| spoils system | practice of rewarding supporters with a position in the government; Andrew Jackson |
| nullification | states decided that federal laws were unconstitutional and believed they didn't have to obey them; contributed to the start of the civil war |
| abolition | movement to end slavery; William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglas |
| fugitive slave laws | ordered all citizens to assist in the return of slaves |
| Dred Scott | Supreme Court decision the slaves were not citizens; declared the Missouri Comromise unconstitutional |
| Abraham Lincoln | president in 1860; his anti-slavery sentiments led several southern states to secede from the union |
| Civil war | 1861-1865; war between the Union states of the north, and the Confederate states of the north |
