A | B |
cotton gin | Eli Whitney's inventin that incrteased the nned for cotton |
Industrial Revolution | Time period when machine-made products replaced handmade goods |
Robert Fulton | He tested his steamboat, the Clermont, on the Hudson River |
spoils system | Rewarded party supporters with government jobs |
Thomas Jefferson | President that purchased the Louisiana Territory from France |
Marbury vs. Madison | Supreme Court could declare a law unconstitutional |
Monroe Doctrine | Issued to keep European powers from forming new colonies in the Western Hemisphere |
Indian Removal Act | Government relocating Cherokees and the Trail of Tears |
Francis Scott Key | Wrote the "Star-Spangled BAnner" |
annexation | Adding a state to the Union |
Louisana Territory | Explored and claimed for the US by Lewis and Clark |
tariff | Tax on imported goods |
precedents set by George Washington | 2 terms, created a Cabinet, and troops were used to enforce laws |
suffrage | Right to vote |
abolitionists | Members of the anti-slavery movement |
impressment | British kidnapped American sailors to serve in their navy |
Aaron Burr | Vice-president under Thomas Jefferson, killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel |
DeWitt Clinton | NY governor responsible for building the Erie Canal |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Ended war with Mexico-gave Mexican Cession to the U.S. |
gold | Discovered in the mid 1800's and caused a large increase in migration to California |
Hamilton's economic plan | Pay off Revolutionary War Debts, pass a protective tariff, start National Bank |
worked for lower wages | Why women and children were hired at textile mills in the 1800's |
Jacksonian Democracy | Suffrate (voting rights) for free white men |
Annexation of Texas | Opposed due to slavery issues |
Help pay the national debt | Southerners agreed when capital was moves near Virginai |