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John Locke's idea that people must give their consent to be governed is the basis for the right to vote for representatives government.
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The idea of "Unalienable rights" amd the people's right to "alter or abolish" a government are most closely associated with Enlightenment thinker John Locke.
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The Declaration of Independence can be attributed to John Locke.
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In Thomas Jefferson's view, people were best governed by, a system of laws.
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The Declaration of Independence eleborates on the Enlightenment idea of natural rights.
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The effect that Enlightenment had on the colonies was that the colonists began to question the authority of the British monarchy.
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In the Untied States, the "supreme law of the land" is the U.S. Constitution.
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The U.S. Constitution limits the power of the federal government by ensuring checks and balances for the three branches of government.
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The Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan come together to form the Great Compromise.
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The Bill of Rights was added to the U.S. Constitution to protect personal liberties.
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Key decisions of the Supreme Court under the leadership of John Marshall solidified the power of the Supreme Court to accept appeals from lower federal courts.
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The Industrial Revolution encouraged more Americans to settle in the Northeast and Midwest.
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As a result of the Civil War, the Northern economy, expanded and emerged more prosperous than ever before.
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In the U.S. cities in the 1800s, political machines controlled activities of political parties.
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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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During the late 19th century, the end of reconstruction, white goverment officials regining power, and the poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses in the south, resulted in, disfranchisement of most Aferican Americans in the South.
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The factor that most limited the growth of the Labor Unions during the 1800s was that most employers were very hostile towards workers efforts to organize.
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During the period from 1880 to 1920, the majority of immigrants to the United States settled in urban areas in the North mainly because, rapid idustrilization had created many job opportunities.
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In the late 19th century, anti-immigration feelings developed in the United States primarily because immigrants competed with native-born Americans for jobs.
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In the late 1800s, factories were generally dangerous and difficult places to work.
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An experience of the majority of immigrants to the United States was that they frequently met resentment.
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The statement, "There are too many foreigners and desirables coming into the United States. Let's pull up the latter." , best illustrates the concept of nativism.
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Most Irish immigrants who were persecuted in the cities during the 1800s were Catholic.
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The Americanization movement of the early twentieth century sought to assimilate ethnic immigrant groups into the dominant culture.
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Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" , influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act.
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