US History Vocabulary List

natural rights that belong to everyone and cannot be taken away

Giving someone a place to stay

To swear into office

Serve as the head advisers for the president

A tax on an imported good

Buy goods from foreign countries

To sell or transfer goods

To make sense or understand

To not side with anyone

A policy governing international relations

rebellion or resistance against the government

A foreign immigrant

Groups that seek to attain political power within government

A person who takes extreme political positions

Something that goes against the constitution

The supreme court has the final say in deciding if something is constitutional or not

Seizing by force

Act that said American ships were no longer allowed to sail to foreign ports; it also closed American ports to British ships

Time period where factory machines replaced hand tools and manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work

Method of production that brought workers and machines Together into one building

identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing

to rebel against someone or an army

long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation

love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it

a partiality for some particular place

a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

practice of rewarding supporters with government jobs

The doctrine that a state can declare null and void a federal law that, in the state's opinion, violates the Constitution.

formal separation from an alliance or federation

an increase in the overall level of prices in the economy

A severe economic slump

The belief that the united states was destined to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean

the transfer of land from one country to another

a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there

someone who leaves one country to settle in another

a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material

disobedience in the people

abstaining from excess

deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon

Movement to end slavery

any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons

the act of forming an alliance or confederation

troops trained to fight on horseback

the freeing of slaves

money you get back at the end of the year

rights to the people, to civilians

system in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops

the state of owing something (especially money)

living in or characteristic of farming or country life

relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area

Laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America

Farm crop raised to be sold for money

variety

same as farming; The raising of crops and animals for human use

the route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade

a blue-violet color

a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland

a movement in the 18th century that accepted science and arts

money collected by the government

refuse to buy

civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army

an army unit that uses big guns

the overthrow of a government by those who are governed

a person hired to fight for another country than their own

a friendly nation

a knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon

a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy

a formal agreement between the governments of two or more countries

a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation

small bands of fighters who weaken the enemy with surprise raids and hit-and-run attacks

a person who represents others

someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes

the act of forming an alliance or confederation

A form of government in which citizens choose their leaders by voting

an accommodation in which both sides make concessions

a system in which power is divided between the national and state governments

approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation

A change to the Constitution

state ruled over by a single person, as a king or queen

the most powerful members of a society

rule by the people

a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right

the division of power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government

A system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power

The idea that certain restrictions should be placed on government to protect the natural rights of citizens

Personal liberties and privileges

people elected by the voters in a presedential election as members of the electoral college

a formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office

a writ ordering a prisoner to be brought before a judge

a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution