| A | B |
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| Judicial Review | The right of the Supreme Court to review and rule on acts of other branches of the government |
| Secede | To withdraw from the union. |
| Tribute | A tribute is protection money |
| Embargo | Prohibits trade with any other country. |
| War Hawks | A young group of republicans elected to the congress in 1810. |
| Industrial Revolution | The new of producing goods with machinery and and faster working methods. |
| Technology | The application of scientific studies to practical use. |
| Cotton Gin | A simple machine that removed the cotton seeds from the fiber. |
| Patent | Gives the inventor the sole rights to his invention for a period of time. |
| Factory system | Bringing manufacturing steps together to in one place to increase efficiency. |
| Interchangeable parts | To make large quantities of uniforms so they could have replacement ones. |
| Census | The official count of the population. |
| Turnpike | Toll roads |
| Canal | An artificial waterway. |
| Locks | Separate compartments where water levels are raised and lowered. |
| Sectionalism | The loyalty to a certain region. |
| Internal Improvements | Federal, state, and privately funded projects such as roads and canals. |
| American System | Included a protective tariff to stimulate the growth of the nations industries. |
| Disarmament | The removal of weapons. |
| Demilitarized | A border without an military. |
| Court-martialed | Tried by a military court. |
| Favorite son | Candidates that recieved backing from their home states. |
| Majority | More than half of a vote. |
| Plurality | The largest single sharein a vote. |
| Mudslinging | An attempt to ruin the oppenents reputation with insults. |
| Landslide | Anm overwhelming victory. |
| Suffrage | The right to vote. |
| spoils system | Replacing government employees with the winner of the elections employees. |
| caucus | Work to make the political system more dramatic. |
| Nominating Conventions | Where the delegates selected a party's candidate for presidency. |
| tariff | A fee paid by merchants importing goods. |
| nullify | cancel |
| states' rights | rights that states have that are independent to the government |
| relocate | move to another area |
| guerrilla tactics | suprise attacks and then retreating back into forests and swamps |
| vetoed | rejected |
| depression | a period in which buisness and employment fall to a very low level |
| laissez faire | the idea that government should interfere with the nations economy as little as possible |
| log cabin campaign | Harrisons campaign for presidency |
| joint occupation | occupied by more than one country |
| mountain men | Men who traveled in the Rocky Mtns. to find pelts and sell them |
| rendezvous | meetings |
| emigrants | pioneers who traveled to a new country |
| manifest destiny | the idea of occupying and possing the whole continent |
| tejanos | mexicans who claimed texas as their home |
| empresarios | people who arranged for the spanish land settlements |
| decree | official order |
| ranchos | huge properties with lots of land |
| rancheros | the ranch owners |
| californios | mexicans who lived in CA |
| ceded | to give |
| forty-niners | people who arived in CA in 1849 |
| boom-towns | new communities that poped up over night |
| vigilantes | people who took the law into their own hands |
| clipper ships | ships that clipped time off of trips |
| telegraph | an invention that used signals to send messages |
| morse code | the system used to give messages with the telegraph |
| trade unions | organization of workers with thew same occupation or skill |
| discrmination | unfair treatment to a group |
| strikes | refusing to work to put pressure on employers |
| famine | extreme shortage of food |
| nativists | felt immigration threatened the future |
| cotton gin | a machine that removed seeds from their cotton fibers |
| capital | money to invest in buisnesses |
| yeomen | made up the largest group of whites in the South |
| tenant farmers | worked on farms |
| fixed costs | regular exspenses such as feeding workers, and housing |
| overseer | a plantation manager |
| spiritual | an african american religious folk song |
| slave-codes | the laws in the southern states that conroled slaves |
| utopias | communities based on a vison of perfect society |
