| A | B |
|---|
| Tariff | a tax |
| Revenue tariff | a tax whose purpose is to raise money |
| Protective tariff | a tax whose purpose is to protect US businesses and industry |
| Spoils system | the practice of handing out government jobs to supporters of the winning candidate |
| Temperance | moderation in or abstinence from consuming alcohol |
| Emancipate | to set free or grant freedom to |
| Empresarios | a person who arranged for the settlement of Texas in the early 1800s |
| Resolution | a formal expression of opinion |
| Popular sovereignty | the state has the right to choose (by voting) |
| The Missouri Compromise | a compromise in 1819 where Maine was added to the Union as a free state and Missouri was added to the union as a slave state |
| Monroe Doctrine | a policy created by President Monroe |
| Industrial Revolution | an increase in manufacturing (machines); it took place more in the North than in the South |
| Eli Whitney | the man who invented the cotton gin |
| Industrialization | using machines |
| Cotton gin | a machine that made it easier to remove the seeds from cotton |
| “Cotton is King | ” a saying in the South which showed the importance of Cotton |
| Cash crops | Things people could grow to earn money; in the South |
| Cotton | the most important crop in the South in 1860 |
| Andrew Jackson | the president of the Union in 1828 |
| Nullification | when a state says that a law made by the federal government (the President) is unconstitutional |
| Nullification Crisis | when South Carolina said that tariffs were unconstitutional |
| Prohibition law | a law that says it is illegal to sell alcohol |
| Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton | famous women who fought for women’s rights |
| Abolitionism | the idea that people should get rid of slavery immediately |
| Emancipate | to free (to give slaves their freedom) |
| Frederick Douglas | a famous African American abolitionist who escaped from slavery |
| Abolitionist | a person who wants to get rid (end) slavery |
| Soujourner Truth | a famous African American abolitionist who escaped from slavery |
| Indian Removal Act | a law that Andrew Jackson made |
