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| Mercantilism | an economic theory that a country's strength is measured by the amount of gold it has, that a country should sell more than it buys and that the colonies exist for the benefit of the Mother Country. |
| abolitionist | a person who wanted to end slavery in the United States |
| tariff | a tax on goods brought into a country. |
| protective tariff | a tax placed on goods from another country to protect the home industry |
| Sectionalism | a strong sense of loyalty to a state or section instead of to the whole country. |
| Manifest Destiny | the belief that the United States should own all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. |
| The Temperance Movement | a campaign against the sale or drinking of alcohol. |
| Representative Government | a system of government in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them. |
| Republic | a nation in which voters choose representatives to govern them |
| The House of Burgesses | the first representative assembly in the new world. |
| The Three Branches of Government | the Legislative Branch, the Judicial Branch, and the Executive Branch. |
| Checks and Balances | a system set up by the Constitution in which each branch of the federal government has the power to check, or control, the actions of the other branches. |
| Free Enterprise | the freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal government regulation. |
| Federalism | the sharing of power between the states and the national government. |
| Separation of Powers | a system in which each branch of government has its own powers. |
| Popular Sovereignty | the practice of allowing each territory to decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery. |
| Amend | to change |
| Unalienable rights | the rights that cannot be given up, taken away or transferred. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are some of these rights |
| Tyranny | a cruel and unjust government |
| Democracy | a form of government that is run for and by the people, giving people the supreme power. |
| Ratify | to approve by vote. |
| Judicial Review | the right of the Supreme Court to judge laws passed by Congress and determine whether they are constitutional or not. |
| Civil Disobedience | the refusal to obey a government law or laws as a means of passive resistance because of one's moral conviction or belief. |
| Federalists | supporters of the Constitution who favored a strong national government. |
| Antifederalists | people opposed to the Constitution, preferring more power be given to the state governments than to the national government. |
| Nullification | the idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal. |
| Primary Sources | original records of an event. They include eyewitness reports, records created at the time of an event, speeches, and letters by people involved in the event, photographs and artifacts. |
| Secondary Sources | the later writing and interpretations of historians and writers. Often secondary sources, like textbooks and articles, provide summaries of information found in primary sources. |
| Republicanism | an attitude toward society in the late 1700s based on the belief that the good virtue and morality of the people was essential to sustain the republican form of government. |
| Industrial Revolution | the era in which a change from household industries to factory production using powered machinery took place. |
