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Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin and demostrated a musket made with interchangable parts |
interchageable parts | parts that are exactly alike |
mass production | production of goods in large quantities |
Industrial Revolution | social and economic reorganization that took place as machines replaced hand tools |
cotton gin | machine designed to clean seeds from cotton fiber; responsible for the expansion of slavery |
Henry Clay | The Great Compromiser: Proposed the American System |
American System | develop transportation systems; establish a protective tariff; establish a national bank |
National Road | begun in Cumberland Maryland 1811; by 1838 it reached Vandalia Illinois |
Erie Canal | linked the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean; opened up the Midwest to world trade |
Tariff of 1816 | proposed to pay for roads, canals and lighthouses and to protect American industry |
McCulloch v. Maryland | the power to tax is the power to destroy |
John Quincy Adams | established a foreign policy based on nationalism |
Gubbons v. Ogden | strengthened the federal government's control over the economy |
Fletcher v. Peck | unconstitutional state law can be overturned by the federal courts |
nationalism | belief that the interests of the nation should come before those of a region |
John Marshall | first Chief Justice of the US |
Rush Bagot Treaty | demilitarized the US Canadian Border |
Adams-Onis Treaty | Spain gives Florida to the United States and gives up claims to Oregon |
Monroe Doctrine | warned Euroopeans to stay out of the Western Hemisphere |
Missouri Compromise (1820) | Missouri and Maine admitted to the Union; slavery prohibited north of Missouri border in the Louisiana Territory |
Andrew Jackson | US president; man of the people; hero of New Orleans; Old Hickory |
Democratic Republican Party | forerunner of today's Democratic Party |
spoils system | appointing political supporters and friends to government office |
Indian Removal Act (1830) | Jackson's policy of removal of Native Americans from the Southeast |
Trail of Tears | describes the suffering of Native Americans as they were forced West to Oklahoma |
Daniel Webster | great orator; champion of Union; senator from Mass. |
John C. Calhoun | laid out a theory of nullification |
Tariff of Abominations | Tariff of 1828; coined by John C. Calhoun |
Bank of the United States | central bank; hated by Jackson |
pet banks | used by Jackson for the country's financial business |
Whig Party | founded by former federalists |
panic of 1837 | collapse of the credit system that caused a third of the country to be out of work |
William Henry Harrrison | Whig candidate in 1840; died of pnuemonia a month into his term |
John Tyler | successor to William Henry Harrison; His Accidency |