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| Marbury v. Madison | This court case established the right of the Supreme Court to determine if something is constitutional or unconstitutional. |
| Judicial Review | Name given to the power that the courts hold to determine constitutionality of laws and other procedures in America. |
| Louisiana Purchase | North American land purchased from French leader, Napoleon that doubled the size of the US. |
| Nat Turner | Slave who led the violent slave revolt that killed 60 men, women, and children. |
| Abolition | Movement to end the institution of slavery. |
| James K. Polk | President intent on seizing land from Mexico either by purchase or war. It eneded up being both. |
| impressment | British policy of seizing Americans at sea and forcing them into the British navy. |
| war hawks | a group of politicians in the South and West who demanded war with Britain over impressment. |
| James Madison | President who convinced Congress to declare war on Great Britain because of impressment. |
| Treaty of Ghent | PEace treaty that ended the WAR of 1812 between US and England. US wins. |
| Sacajewea | Indian guide to Lewis and Clark. Carried her infant son with her over a thousand miles. |
| Lewis and Clark | Chosen by Thomas Jefferson to explore the territory gained in the Louisiana Purchase. |
| Manifest Destiny | Idea that America was fated or destined by God to expand west. |
| Oregon Trail | Wagon and footpath taken by pioneers from Independence, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon. |
| California Gold Rush | Spurred the massive grown of California population and the Forty Niners (miners). |
| Market Revolution | When people stopped making everything for themselves and instead started to buy those goods. |
| Great Potato famine | Killed millions of Irish in Ireland prompting a massiving Irish immigration movement to America. |
| National Trades Union | One of the first unions to represent workers in a variety of trades. |
| Free enterprise | When private businesses compete for profits with minimum government regulation. |
| Unitarian | Faith that emphasizes faith in the individual and reason as a path to perfection |
| Frederick Douglass | Former slave whose newspaper, The North Star advocated the end of slavery. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | militant, white abolitionist whose paper the Liberator advocated the immediate end of slavery. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | One organized of the Seneca Falls Convention. She also wrote the convention's Declaration of Sentiments. |
| Second Great Awakening | Religious revival that swept the nation and converted millions to new fangled Christianity. |
