A | B |
manufacturing | the making of products by machinery |
Market Revolution | the change in the way Americans made, bought and sold goods |
centralized | all the tasks involved in making a product were carried out in one place |
free enterprise system | an economic system in which companies compete for profits; also called capitalism |
capital | wealth that can be invested to produce goods and make money |
bank note | a piece of paper that banks issued to their customers to pay for goods and services |
urban | places made up mostly of one or more cities |
population density | the amount of people living within a given space |
industrialization | the growth of industry |
tenements | crowded apartments with poor standards of sanitation, safety and comfort |
strike | work stoppage |
labor union | an organization of workers formed to protect the interests of its members |
rural | an area made up mostly of farms and countryside instead of cities |
Turner's Rebellion | African American man led up to 70 slaves in raids on white families in southeastern Virginia |
McCulloch vs. Maryland | court case that ruled that Congress did have the authority to charter a bank |
Dartmouth College vs. Woodward | court ruled that states cannot interfere in business contracts |
Gibbons vs. Ogden | case that ruled states could not regulate commerce on interstate waterways |
Monroe Doctrine | declaration that the U.S. would oppose efforts by any outside power to control a nation in the Western Hemisphere |
patronage | giving government jobs to friends and supporters |
spoils system | system or practice of giving appointed offices as rewards from the successful party in an election |
Tariff of 1828 | a heavy tax on imports designed to discourage foreign imports and encourage American manufacturing |
secede | to withdraw |
Indian Removal Act | authorized the President to give Native Americans land in parts of the Louisiana Purchase in exchange for lands taken in the East |
Trail of Tears | the forced movement of Cherokees in 1838-1839 to land west of the Mississippi |