| A | B |
|---|
| Jacksonian Democracy | period of expanding democracy in the 1820s and 1830s |
| spoils system | practice of giving government jobs to political supporters/backers |
| Indian Removal Act | authorizing the removal of Native Americans who lives East of Mississippi Rover to lands in the West (1830) |
| Trail of Tears | Cherokee INdians, 800 mile forced march; 18,000 Cherokees died; suffered disease, hunger, harsh, and weather |
| Oregon Trail | 2,000 miles long, stretched from Independence Missouri/Council Bluffs, Iowa west into Oregon County |
| Alamo | an abandoned mission near San Antonio that became an important battle site in the Texas Revolution |
| manifest destiny | a belief/obvious fate, to settle land all the way to the Pacific Ocean in order to spread democracy |
| tenements | poorly designed apartment buildings that housed large numbers of people |
| temperance movement | a reform effort that urged people to use self-discipline to stop drinking hard liquor |
| abolition | a complete end to slavery |
| Underground Railroad | not an actual railroad, but was a network of people who arranged transportation and hiding places for fugitives or escaped slaves |
