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== General terms to know for US History == | == General terms to know for US History == | ||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Old World v. New World| "Old" = Europe; "New" = Americas}}</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:political expediency|expedience = cutting corners, compromising principles to achieve a short term outcomes; political expediency comes of politicians / leaders who act against their stated beliefs in order to achieve a cerain outcome; may be seen as hypocrisy, but all politicians must engage in expedients at some point, and students may identify these in analysis of causes and effects}}</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> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:precedent| the judicial practice of adhereing to prior or "preceding" decisions; decisions that change "precedent" are considered "landmark"}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:precedent| the judicial practice of adhereing to prior or "preceding" decisions; decisions that change "precedent" are considered "landmark"}}</ul></li> | ||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:temperance movement| social and political movement to ban production and use of alcohol}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:temperance movement| social and political movement to ban production and use of alcohol}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:unalienable| not divisible, cannot be taken away; thus in the Declaration, "unalienable rights" are those that people are born with and cannot be taken away; unalienable rights can be violated, but under the theory of "natural law" any violation of those rights is illegitimate; note: "unalienable" = same as "inalienable" }}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:unalienable| not divisible, cannot be taken away; thus in the Declaration, "unalienable rights" are those that people are born with and cannot be taken away; unalienable rights can be violated, but under the theory of "natural law" any violation of those rights is illegitimate; note: "unalienable" = same as "inalienable" }}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:unintended consequence|effects of a policy, decision or action that are unexpected or unanticipated}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:United States|so-called because of the "union" of independent states that joined to form a single country}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:United States|so-called because of the "union" of independent states that joined to form a single country}}</ul></li> | ||
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