Definition and meaning of factionalism:

factionalism

When the Federalists disappeared as a national party by 1820, the Jeffersonian Republicans, lacking any organized opposition, became more troubled by internal factional disputes. A faction is a group or clique within a larger group (political party).

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Definition and meaning of The Federalist:

The Federalist

This series of eighty-five essays, written anonymously and individually by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, were published in New York in 1787 and 1788 to rally support for the ratification of the Constitution.

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Definition and meaning of Federalists:

Federalists

Federalists advocated ratification of the Constitution; they were centralizing nationalists. Antifederalists opposed ratification of the Constitution; they were states' rightists and were concerned that the Constitution contained no Bill of Rights.

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Definition and meaning of FDIC:

FDIC

Congress created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in 1933 to guarantee bank deposits up to $5000 (later raised). It was designed to protect individual savings accounts from loss due to bank closings.

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Definition and meaning of creole:

creole

A creole was a slave of African descent born in the colonies.

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Definition and meaning of criollo:

criollo

A criollo was a person of Spanish descent born in the Americas or in the West Indies.

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Definition and meaning of Crusades:

Crusades

The Crusades were European religious campaigns of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that attempted to drive the Muslims from the Middle Eastern Holy Land. They were partly responsible for stimulating trade between Western Europe and Asia.

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Definition and meaning of counterculture:

counterculture

The term counterculture referred to various alternatives to mainstream values and behaviors that became popular in the 1960s. Among these were experimentation with psychedelic drugs, communal living, a return to the land, Asian religions, and experimental art.

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Definition and meaning of crack:

crack

"Crack" is a cheap, smokeable, and highly addictive form of cocaine. Its widespread use is a symptom of the "drug problem" in contemporary America.

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Definition and meaning of declension:

declension

Declension was the decline of the Puritan experiment in Massachusetts Bay. It began in the 1660s and was marked by the loss of religious intensity. It was manifested in the adoption of the Half-Way Covenant in 1662.

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Definition and meaning of Deism:

Deism

Deism was the faith of the Enlightenment that revered God for the marvels of the universe rather than for His power over humankind. This religious orientation rejects divine revelation and holds that the workings of nature alone reveal God's design for the universe.

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Definition and meaning of doves:

doves

The term "doves" identified those Americans who opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. They generally believed that the United States was unjustifiably meddling in a Vietnamese civil war.

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Definition and meaning of Dixiecrats:

Dixiecrats

Southern Democrats who broke from the party in 1948 over the issue of civil rights and ran a presidential ticket as the States' Rights Democrats were referred to as dixiecrats.

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Definition and meaning of doughboys:

doughboys

The doughboys were American troops of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) who served in Europe in World War I. Their presence boosted the morale of British and French troops and was decisive in the outcome of the war.

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Definition and meaning of Doughface:

Doughface

"Doughface" was the pejorative appellation Republicans pinned on President Buchanan. It was their belief that he lacked the force of character to stand up against southern proslavery extremists.

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Definition and meaning of deregulation:

deregulation

Deregulation refers to the reduction or removal of government regulations and encouragement of direct competition in many important industries and economic sectors.

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Definition and meaning of deskilling:

deskilling

Deskilling refers to a decline in work force skills due to discrimination, as for southern blacks in the late nineteenth century, or to mechanization, as for white industrial workers in the same period.

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Definition and meaning of disenfranchisement:

disenfranchisement

Disenfranchisement refers to the use of legal means to bar individuals or groups from voting.

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Definition and meaning of disestablishment:

disestablishment

To disestablish means to withdraw exclusive government recognition or support. The final disestablishment of America's churches in the 1830s reflected the Jacksonian dislike of special privilege.

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Definition and meaning of distribution:

distribution

President Jackson, who generally held to Jeffersonian views of states' rights and limited government, suggested that once the federal debt was paid off, the surplus revenues of the federal government should be distributed among the states.

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Definition and meaning of collaborationist:

collaborationist

A collaborationist willingly cooperates, complies with, or assists enemy forces occupying his country. During World War II, the Vichy government of France collaborated with German occupying forces.

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Definition and meaning of Clermont:

Clermont

The "Clermont" was the steamboat constructed by Robert Fulton in 1807. Soon steamboats were plying the waters of every navigable river from the Mississippi River east.

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