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John Locke encourages the idea of unalienable righhts and to abolish the Gov't
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john locke encourages right to vote
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Enlightenment encouraged the colonists to question the British monarchy
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Thomas Jefferson's view, people were best governed by a system of laws
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Declaration of Independence elaborates the Enlightenment ideas of natural rights
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The Declaration of Independence can be attributed to John Locke
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The Great Compromise
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The US Constitution limits the power of federal govt by enshuring checks and balances for the three branches of govt
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The US Constitution is the supreme law of the land
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The Bill of Rights was added to the US Constitution to protect personal liberties
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Many US cities in the 1800s, political machinescontrolled activities of political parties
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Irish Imigrants were persecuted because most were catholic.
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John Marshall solidified the power of the supreme court to review the constitutionary of state and federal laws
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The Idustrial Revolution encouraged more Americans to settle in the Northeast and Midwest.
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The civil war expanded and emerged more prosperous than ever before to the Northern economy
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American political parties in the Gilded Age often controlled local elections by providing people with services and favors in exchange for their votes
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anti-imigration feelings developed in the US because immigrants competed with native-born Americans for jobs
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The majority of immigrants to the US settled in urban areas in the North mainly becauserapid industrialization had created many job opportunities
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most employers were very hostile toward workers efforts to organize which limited the growth of labor unions
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factories were dangerous and difficult places to work
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disfranchisement of most African Americans in the South
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majority of the immigrants to the US frequently met resentment
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Too many foreigners comeing into the US best illlustrates the concept of nativism
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THE JUNGLE influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act
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Americanization movement of the early twntieth century sought to assimilate ethnic immigrant groups into the dominant culture
