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John Locke encourages the right to vote and ideas of unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and possesion of property
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The Enlightenment enocurages colonists to question the authority of the british government
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Declaration of Independence elaborates on the idea of natural rights
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Thomas Jefferson changes unalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Thomas Jefferson states that people are best governed by a system of laws -
The Great Compromise is made to satisfy both large and small states demands
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US Constitution limits the power of the federal government by ensuring checks and balances for the three branches of government
The US Constitution is the supremem law of the land -
Bill of Rights is made to protect personal liberties
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Most Irish immigrants who were persecuted during the 1800s were Catholic
1800s
The majority of immigrants in the US frequently met resentment. -
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The Industrial Revolution encouraged more Americans to settle in the Northeast and Midwest
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Political machines controlled activities of political parties
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John Marshall solidifies the power of the supreme court to review the constitutionality of laws
Marbury v. Madison Case -
US Civil War ends with Northern economy expanding and emerging more proseperous than ever before
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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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Majority of Immigrants settled in urban areas in the north because rapid industrialization had created many job oppurtunities
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Disfranchisement of African Americans in the south caused by poll taxes, literacy tests, and granfather clauses
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Factories were dangerous places to work and most employers were very hostile toward workers efforts to organize
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Anti-immigration feeling developed in the US primarily because immigrants competed with native-born Americans for jobs
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The Americanization movement sought to assimilate ethnic grouos into the dominant culture
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Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle which influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act
