First Semester Flashcards by Nellie Christensen | Brainscape

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To set free

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Enfranchised

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Killing of family

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Fratricidal

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Showing skill or cleverness

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Adroit

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Black and white offspring

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Mulatto

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Existing before the war

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Antebellum

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Sway through; lack of equilibrium

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Vacillated

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Attendant or officer in a noble household

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Yeoman

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To agree

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Acquiesced

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Having superior weight or influence

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Preponderances

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Only land owners can have water from rivers

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Riparian rights

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A mixture of races

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Miscegenation

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Process of which several steps of a business are owned by a company

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Vertical integration

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Company created to posses other companies

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Holding company

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Exclusive ownership

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Monopoly

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Maker of wooden casks or tubs

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Cooper

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Industrial workers of the world

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Wobblies

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Small Jewish town in Europe

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Shtetl

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Where Mexicans live

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Barrios

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Getting gain in a dishonest way

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Graft

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Journalism based on crude exaggeration

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Yellow journalism

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Permitted voters to make a law

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Initiative

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The vote

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Referendum

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Removing an elected official

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Recall

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Illegalizing

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Prohibition

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Kidnapping young girls to sell into prostitution

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White slavery

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Women tend houses

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Social housekeeping

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Right to vote

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Suffrage

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Boxers tried to through foreigners out of China

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Boxer rebellion

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Countries try to take over other lands

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Imperialism

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Study of skull

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Phrenology

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An authority of influence

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Hegemony

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Societies that had influence

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Spheres of influence

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German submarines in WW1

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Unterseebooten

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Refusing to bear arms for religious reasons

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Conscientious objector

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Hostile and aggressive

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Belligerent

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Market shared by small number of producers

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Oligopoly

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People leading the way

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Vanguard

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Without borders

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Sin fronteras

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Small grocery store in a Spanish speaking area

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Bodegas

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Gives financial support

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Patron