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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:intolerance| unwillingness to accept views, beliefs or persons different from oneself; in international affairs; the "Intolerable Acts" was a name given by the American colonists who opposed a series of Acts of Parliament called by England the "Coercive Acts"}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:intolerance| unwillingness to accept views, beliefs or persons different from oneself; in international affairs; the "Intolerable Acts" was a name given by the American colonists who opposed a series of Acts of Parliament called by England the "Coercive Acts"}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:laissez-faire| from French for "to leave alone"; used as reference to government non-intervention in the economy, usually regarding corporations; "laissez-faire" has a negative connotation, whereas supporters of government non-interference in the economy refer to that point of view as "libertarian"}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:laissez-faire| from French for "to leave alone"; used as reference to government non-intervention in the economy, usually regarding corporations; "laissez-faire" has a negative connotation, whereas supporters of government non-interference in the economy refer to that point of view as "libertarian"}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:mercantilism| | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:mercantilism| colonialist policy of controling or regulating trade so as to require that colonial possessions only purchase from and sell to the mnother country; the philosophy was that economic "stakeholders" were home-country farms, businesses, and land owners}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:nativism| | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:nativism| "ethnocentric" belief in the dominant ethnicity and culture of a nation, particularly as regards immigration (called "chauvanisme" in French)}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:nullify / nullification| | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:nullify / nullification| the theory that since the Constitution is a "compact" (agreement) of the states, the authority to withhold that agreement or parts of it remains with the states; | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Old World v. New World| | as in the "Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions" and the Nullification Crisis of 1830s)}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Old World v. New World| "Old" = Europe; "New" = Americas}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:political|from Greek ''polis'' for "city"; governance or organization of a group of people; operates at all levels, as in local, state or national "politics" }}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:political|from Greek ''polis'' for "city"; governance or organization of a group of people; operates at all levels, as in local, state or national "politics" }}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:popular sovereignty|1850s political stance that held that territories and states should accept or not accept the practice of slavery based upon a vote of the people (i.e., "popular"; sovereignty = rule}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:popular sovereignty|1850s political stance that held that territories and states should accept or not accept the practice of slavery based upon a vote of the people (i.e., "popular"; sovereignty = rule}}</ul></li> | ||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:"Republican motherhood"| >>definition here }}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:"Republican motherhood"| >>definition here }}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:state|a sovereign political unit; in the "United States" the states are }}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:state|a sovereign political unit; in the "United States" the states are }}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:states rights| >>definition here }}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:states rights| >>definition here }}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:segregation| >>definition here }}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:segregation| >>definition here }}</ul></li> | ||