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morgan vocab
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Term | Definition |
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rural | relates to countryside |
urban | city;more populated |
dred scott VS Stanford | landmark court case 1857 confirmed slaves were property not humans |
emancipation proc. | declared sep. 22,1862, take effect on jan. 1, 1863 all confederate slaves were free |
English bill of rights | passed in 1689 by king william & queen mary gave certain rights to all English citizens |
civil disobedience | process of defying codes of conduct within a community or ignoring politics of a gov of state or nation when civil laws are considered unfair |
dec of independence | signed july 4th 1776 |
will penn | established a Pennsylvania colony for quakers |
federalism | the distribution of power between federal gov and the states within the union |
tom paine | writing influenced the founding fathers one of his many works include common sense |
federalist | strong national gov |
non federalist | strong state gov weak national gov |
federalist papers | a series of 85 essays written to deal with anti and non anti federalists |
rob e lee | commanding general of the confederate army |
free blacks | former slaves or decendents of slaves that were born free of slavery or bought their freedom |
french and indian war | a war fought between france and english in north america it lasted 7 years |
the fundamental orders of conn. | the first written constution in the colonies was written around 1630s |
john marshall | cheif justice of surpreme court 1801-1835 |
gettysburg adress | november 19 1863 honest abe traveled to gettysburg to give a speech |