“H&I” Terms

“J,K&L” Terms

“M” Terms

“N” Terms

“O&P” Terms

“R&S” Terms

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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