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| Marbury v. Madison | Precedent-setting Supreme Court case in which Marshall dismissed a Federalist judge's suit but also declared part of the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional |
| "judicial review" | The principle, established by Cheif Justice Marshall ina famous case, that the Supreme Court can declare laws unconstitutional |
| $15 million | price paid by the United States for the Louisianna Purchase |
| Susan B. Anthony | supporter of female suffrage |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | originally an abolitionist and a leading women's rights advocate |
| Seneca Falls Declaration | signed at the first women's rights convention and the principal author was Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Compromise of 1850 | California entered as a free state |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 | repealed the missouri compromise |
| Missouri Compromise (1820) | drew an imaginary line across the Louisiana Purchase with slavery prohibited above the line and allowed below |
| Panic of 1837 | Jackson's re-election brought an end to the national bank and Jackson put government money in state banks, causing an economic depression |
| Spoils system | Jackson used this system to reward supporters with government jobs |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| William Lloyd Garrison | publisher of The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper |
| Andrew Jackson | presidency was considered the era of the common man |
| Nat Turner and Gabriel Prosser | led slave revolts in Virginia which led to harsh laws in the South against fugitive slaves |
| aristocrat | member of the aristocracy |
