APUSH VOCAB CH 11-12
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 boom | in economics, period of sudden, spectacular expansion of business activity or prices |
| broadside | the simultaneous firing of all guns on one side of a ship |
| cede | to yield or grant something, often upon request or under pressure |
| conscription | compulsory enrollment of men and women into armed forces |
| demagogue | concerning a leader who stirs up the common people by appeals to emotion and prejudice, often for selfish or irrational ends |
| embargo | a government order prohibiting commerce in or out of a port |
| frigate | a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser |
| hodgepodge | a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas |
| internal improvements | the basic public works, such as roads and canals, that create the structure for economic development |
| intrastate | something existing wholly within a state of the united states |
| mediation | an intervention, usually by consent of the parties, to aid in voluntarily settling differences between groups or nations |
| nationalism | involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms |
| patronage | the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers |
| peculiar institution | widely used term for the institution of American black slavery |
| precedent | in law and government, a decision or action that establishes a sanctioned rule for determining similar cases in the future |
| protective tariff | in economics, the policy of stimulating or preserving domestic producers by placing barriers against imported goods; often through high tariffs |
| reactionary | in politics, extreme conservatism, looking to restore the political or social conditions of some earlier time |
| sectionalist | loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than the nation as a whole. |
| tribunal | an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business |
| wildcat bank | an unregulated, speculative bank that issues notes without sufficient capital to back them |
| writ | a formal legal document ordering or prohibiting some act |
| depression | in economics, a severe and very prolonged period of declining economic activity, high unemployment, and low wages and prices |
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