Us History Regents Review Questions with Complete Solutions Enlightenment - Correct Answer Time period emphasizing reason and individualism instead of tradition Natural rights - Correct Answer Any right that exists by virtue of natural law (life liberty per suit of happiness) Mercantilism - Correct Answer Economic system in which trade generates wealth Stamp Act - Correct Answer Taxes on all paper goods in colonies. Collected by England
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Federalism - Correct Answer Distribution of power organized and split between a central authority and it's units Popular sovereignty - Correct Answer Document that allowed new states to choose wether or not to be a slave state Civil liberties - Correct Answer Freedom to exercise rights such as speech, assembly without government interference. Protected by the Bill of Rights Indian removal Act - Correct Answer Forces removal of natives from their homes. Trail of Tears.Approved by congress Underground Railroad - Correct Answer Secret routes and safe houses used by slaves to escape to the free states Reconstruction - Correct Answer Rebuilding of the South following the Civil War Scalawags - Correct Answer White southerner who helped northern republicans during reconstruction, usually for personal profit 1 / 2
Carpetbaggers - Correct Answer Political candidate who seeks election in area where they have no connections Black codes - Correct Answer Laws passed in southern states that limited civil liberties of black Americans after the civil war Segregation - Correct Answer Forced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment Jim Crow Laws - Correct Answer Racial segregation laws at the state level Transcontinental Railroad - Correct Answer Network of rails connecting places across a continent.Impacted USA by improving trade, travel, and business Capitalism - Correct Answer Economic and political system in which individuals control Business for profit Laissez Faire - Correct Answer Philosophy in which the government does not get involved in businesses Nativism - Correct Answer Protecting the interests of native born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants ( gangs of NY) Manifest Destiny - Correct Answer Idea that expansion of the USA through the American continents was justified and inevitable Roosevelt Corollary - Correct Answer 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force Monroe Doctrine - Correct Answer 1823, , A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere.Open Door Policy - Correct Answer A policy proposed by the US in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China.
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