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1.AOC-was the first governing document, or constitution, of the United States of America.
2.Poupular Sovereignty- is the belief that the state is created by and therefore subject to the will of its people, who are the source of all political power.
3.Black Codes-were laws passed on the state and local level mainly in the rural Southern states in the United States to restrict the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans
4.Mercantile Theory-is an economic theory that holds the prosperity of a nation depends upon its supply of capital, and that the global volume of trade is "unchangeable
5.Garrison/Liberator- Garrison was a abolitionist and he used the Liberator to boice his ideas.
6. Great Awakening- refer to several periods of dramatic religious revival in Anglo-American religious history, generally recognized as beginning in the 1730s
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8.Individualism is a term used to describe a moral, political, or social outlook that stresses human independence and the importance of individual self-reliance and liberty.
Transcendentalism- a literary and philosophical movement that was begun during the early 19th century in New England by Ralph Waldo Emerson and others.
9. Shays Rebellion- was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787.
10.Dred Scott- was a slave who sued unsuccessfully for his freedom in the famous Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1856.
11.Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions-   were important political statements in favor of states' rights written secretly by Vice President Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (then in retirement) in 1798. They were passed by the two states in opposition to the federal Alien and Sedition Acts. Though often mentioned as a pair in modern historical discussions, they were actually two separate documents. The Kentucky Resolutions (plural) were written by Jefferson and passed by the state legislature on November 16, 1798, with one more being passed the following year on...