| A | B |
|---|
| abolition | movement to end slavery |
| John Quincy Adams | 6th President of the United States |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | allowed the U.S. to purchase Florida from Spain |
| American System | pre-Civil War set of measures designed to unify the nation and strengthen its economy by means of protective tariffs, a national bank, and internal improvements |
| Antebellum | belonging to the period before the Civil War |
| Bank of the United States | either of the two national banks, funded by the federal government and private investors, established by Congress, the first in 1791 and the second in 1816 |
| John Calhoun | proponent of southern secession |
| cotton gin | a machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney |
| Democratic-Republican Party | party founded by Thomas Jefferson |
| Frederick Douglass | editor of the North Star |
| Emancipation | freeing of the slaves |
| Sarah Grimke | descendent of a slaveholder and an abolitionist |
| Henry Clay | proponent of the national bank |
| Indentured Servant | a person who has contracted to work for another for a limited period, often in return for travel expenses, shelter and sustenance |
| Indian Removal Act | a law, enacted in 1830, that forced Native American peoples east of the Mississippi to move to lands in the West |
| Interchangable Parts | standardized parts that can be used in place of one another |
| Andrew Jackson | president who started the "Age of the Common Man" |
| Marbury v. Madison | court case that first used judicial review |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | court case that ruled "the power to tax is the power to destroy" |
| Industrial Revolution | movement from hand tools to large scale industry |
| Monroe Doctrine | the U.S. promised to stay out of European affairs |
| Lucretia Mott | headed the first women's rights convention, assembled at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 |
| Panic of 1837 | happened due to the veto of the National Bank |
| Seneca Falls Convention | first women's rights convention |
| Spoils System | the practice of winning candidates' rewarding their supporters with government jobs |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | headed the first women's rights convention, assembled at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 |
| Tariff of Abominations | John C. Calhoun's name for an 1828 tariff increase that seemed to Southerners to be enriching the North at their expanse |
| Temperance Movement | an organized effort to prevent the drinking of alcoholic beverages |
| Trail of Tears | the marches in which the Cherokee people were forcibly removed from Georgia to the Indian Territory in 1838-1840, with thousands of the Cherokee dying on the way |
| Sojourner Truth | suffragist who delivered the speech "Ain't I a Woman" |
| Nat Turner | led a killing spree throughout Virginia |
| Martin van Buren | 8th President of the United States |
| David Walker | a free black who advised blacks to fight for freedom rather than to wait for slave owners to end slavery |
| Eli Whitney | inventor of the cotton gin |
| Missouri Compromise | Maine became a state |
