A | B |
road that requires users to pay a toll | Turnpike |
shift from manual labor to mechanized work that began in Great Britain during the 1700s and spread to the U.S around 1800 | Industrial Revolution |
brought the idea of factory towns to America; textiles | Francis Cabot Lowell |
invented electric telegraph; developed a code of dots | Samuel Morse |
organization of workers; better wages and working conditions | Labor Union |
loyalty and devotion to one's nation | Nationalism |
James Monroe's Secretary of State, son of former President John Adams, reduce regional tension by promoting national expansion | John Quincy Adams |
1819 treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to the U.S. | Adams-Onis Treaty |
War hero from 1812, and Seminole wars; a.k.a. "old hickory" | Andrew Jackson |
Andrew Jackson and his followers' political philosophy concerned with interest of the common people and limiting the role of the federal government | Jacksonian Democracy |
1828 protective tariff, so-named by its southern opponents | Tariff of Abominations |
Member of the nationalist political party formed in 1832 in opposition to the Democrats | Whig |
road built by the federal government in the early 1800s that extended from Maryland to Illonois | National Road |
immigrant, used knowledge of textile machines to built first water powered textile mill in 1793 | Samuel Slater |
identical components that can be used in place of one another | Interchangeable Parts |
protective tariff established by Congress to encourage Americans to buy goods made in the U.S. | Tariff of 1816 |
person who favors native-born inhabitants over immigrants | Nativist |
Congress man from Kentucky; in favor of a protective tariff | Henry Clay |
1817-1818 war between the U.S. soldiers and Seminole Indians in Florida | First Seminole War |
1820 agreement calling for the admission of Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and banning slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the 36/30'N latitude | Missouri Compromise |
future President from New York, help to garner support for Andrew Jackson | Martin Van Buren |
act passed by Congress in 1830 that allowed the federal government to negotiate land trades with Indians in the Southeast | Indian Removal Act |
Congressman from South Carolina, against the protective tariff | John C. Calhoun |
canal completed in 1825 that connected Lake Erie to the Hudson River | Erie Canal |
young women who worked in the textile mills in Lowell Massachusetts, in the early 1800s | Lowell Girl |
introduced interchangeable parts to the U.S.; developed the cotton gin | Eli Whitney |
money or wealth used to invest in business or enterprise | Capital |
machine invented in 1793 to separate the cotton fiber from the seeds | Cotton Gin |
Henry Clay's federal program designed to stimulate the economy with internal improvements and create a self-sufficient nation | American System |
foreign policy doctrine set forth President Monroe in 1823 that discouraged European intervention in the Western Hemisphere | Monroe Doctrine |
closed meeting of party members for the purpose of choosing a candidate | Caucus |
practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications | Spoils System |
forced march of the Cherokee Indians to move west of the Mississippi in the 1830s | Trail of Tears |
concept in which states could nullify, or void, any federal law they deemed unconstitutional | Nullification |