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My ABC Book Of U.S. History. Destiny Lafayette 5 th period 5-18-11. Abolitionist. A person who strongly favors doing away with slavery. Boycott. To refuse to buy items from a particular country. Checks and balances. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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My ABC Book Of U.S. History
Destiny Lafayette5th period
5-18-11
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Abolitionist
• A person who strongly favors doing away with slavery
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Boycott
• To refuse to buy items from a particular country
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Checks and balances
• The system in which each branch of government has a check on the other two branches so that no one branch becomes too powerful
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Dictator
• A leader who rules with total authority, often in a cruel or brutal manner
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Emigrant
• A person who leaves a country or region to live elsewhere
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Fugitive
• Runaway or trying to run away
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Genocide
• The deliberate destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
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Habeas corpus
• A legal order for an inquiry to determine whether a person has been lawfully imprisoned
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Import
• To buy goods from foreign markets
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judicial review
• The branch of government, including the federal court system, that interrupts the nations laws
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Lynching
• Putting to death a person illegal action of a mob
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Manifest Destiny
• The idea popular in the united states during the 1800s that the country must expand its boundaries to the pacific
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Naturalization
• To grant full citizenship to a foreigner
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Ordinance
• A law or regulation
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Pueblo
• Home or community of homes built by native Americans
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RANCHO
• Huge properties for raising livestock set up by Mexican settlers in California
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Strike
• A stopping of work by workers to force an employee to meet demands
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Theocracy
• A form of government in which the society is ruled by religious leaders
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Utopia
• Community based on a vision of a perfect society sought by reformers
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veto
• To reject a bill and prevent it from becoming a law
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War hawks
• Republican during Madison's presidency who pressed for war with Britain
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Yankee
• Union soldier