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S.S. REAL Quiz Vocab
Social Studys stuff
Term | Definition |
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War of 1812 | The war of 1812 was a conflict fought between the U.S , the United Kingdom and their respective allies. |
-Embargo Act | The Embargo act prohibited american ships for trading in all foreign ports |
-Impressment | When you kidnap someone and make them do work in the navy |
-Barbary Pirates | Group of pirates who attacked american ships along the Barbary Coast of northern Africa in the first few years of the 18th Century |
-Monroe Doctrine | A principal of U.S. policy originated by President James Monroe in 1823 that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is potentially hostile |
-Jacksonian Democracy | A movement for more democracy in American government in 1830s Led by President Andrew Jackson this movement championed greater rights for the common man and was opposed to any signs of aristocracy. |
-Spoils System | A practice in which a political party after winning an election gives government civil service jobs to its supporters friends and relatives as a reward for working toward victory and as an incentive to keep working for the party. |
-Nullification Crisis | A practice in which a political party after winning an election gives government civil service jobs to its supporters friends and relatives as a reward for working toward victory and as an incentive to keep working for the party |
-Trail of Tears | The route along which the United States government forced several tribes of native americans to migrate to reservations west of the mississippi River |
-Indian Removal Act | The Act that allowed President Jackson to to negotiate with Native american tribes on their removal to federal territory west of the mississippi river |