18th century intellectual movement; emphasized use of reason and science to obtain knowledge - Enlightenment, life, liberty, property; may also hear happiness - Natural Rights, an earlier event or action regarded as an example - Precedent , agreement between citizens and the government; citizens give up some rights in order to be protected by the government - Social Contract, give formal consent, making a document officially valid - Ratify, belief that rights of individual states take priority over laws of the national government - States Rights, complete control of an industry by a single company - Monopoly, the change in society that occurred through replacing hand tools with machines and developing large-scale industry; late 19th early 20th century - Industrial Revolution, movement from one place to another within a country - Migration, minority group’s adaptation to the dominant culture - Assimilation, 19th century belief that the US would spread to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory - Manifest Destiny, a fee charged on imported goods - Tariff, movement of foreigners to a country - Immigration, growth of cities - Urbanization , period of rebuilding after the Civil War, former Confederate States were readmitted to the Union - Reconstruction, established - Institutionalized, being deprived of a right or privilege, often the right to vote - Disenfranchisement, separation of people based on race - Segregation, Southern law that separated whites and blacks - Jim Crow Laws, movement of African Americans to northern cities, early 20th century - Great Migration, Early 20th century reform movement focused on quality of life as well as government corruption - Progressive Movement, preservation or protection; preservation of forests and natural resources - Conservation, policy of extending national influence over other countries by political, economic, cultural, or military means - Imperialism, Devotion to the interests and culture of one’s nation - Nationalism, in opposition to entanglements (treaties) with other countries - Isolationist, limitation on the amount of certain goods people may buy, usually in wartime to ensure enough for the military - Rationing, refusal to take sides in conflicts between other nations - Neutrality, the right to vote - Suffrage,

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