| A | B |
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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 |
| John Quincy Adams | established a foreign policy based on nationalism |
| nationalism | belief that the interests of the nation should come before those of a region |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
