APUSH FLASHCARD DEFINITIONSS

Capitalism

use a free market that is not controlled by the government to let private businesses and people determine the value of products

Communism

organizing a country where everyone shares resources and property, with the goal of making sure everyone has enough and everyone is treated fairly

Urban

town or city

Rural

countryside

Republican motherhood

responsible for upholding the morality of her husband and children

trans-Atlantic trade

ideas between Europe, Africa, and the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean, particularly during the period of colonization and the transatlantic slave trade

Social reform

a reshaping or reforming of culturally accepted laws and norms in light of new cultural

Republican self government

every state in the Union, and the distinguishing feature of that form is the right of the people to choose their own officers for governmental administration, and pass their own laws in virtue of the legislative power reposed in representative

Convergence

the independent development of similarities between separate cultures

Populist

emphasize the idea of the "common people" and often position this group in opposition to a perceived elite.

Democratic Republican

Limited central gov, strong state power, support for farmers, France glazers. Thomas Jefferson, James Maddison

Whig

Support congress, internal improvements(roads and stuff) gov pays for, high tarrifs, national bank. Henry clay, Daniel Webster.

Federalist

strong central government, bank and cities to grow, favor whealthy merchants. Alexander Hamilton and John Adam’s

Democrats

limited gov, anti-bank, pro-slavery in the south. Andrew jackson

Free soil party

Opposed expansion of slavery into western world. Free soil, free speech, free labor, free men.

Republican Party

Opposed slavery, supported industry and modern infastructure. Abraham Lincoln

Columbian exchange

Trade of good and spread of diseases, between the old world and the new world.

Mercantilism

Colonies exist to make money for mother country

Encomienda system

Spanish system where colonist force native to work for them

Salutary neglect

Do whatever you want type shit

Mayflower

Agreement for self governance in the colonies

Great awakening

Religious revival spread across the colonies

French and idian war

British vs French and their native allies

Stamp act

Tax on printed materials makes colonists angry

Artiche of confedert

Weak

Embargo act

Made it hard for Americans economically especially in shipping and trade

Puritan

Half way covenant

Mucrackers

journalist who exposed

Compromise of 1877

Ended reconstruction in excange for hates becoming president

Molasses Act

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