| A | B |
|---|
| Unions | Created to fight for wages and working conditions |
| Abolitionists | Fought against slavery and westward expansion and also the positive good theory of slavery |
| Manifest Destiny | Americans "God Given Right" to expand from coast to coast especially in the 1840's and 50's |
| Reform Movement | religious, republican, democratic |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Prominent abolitionist |
| Conscience Whigs | Opposed slavery in the West and therefore opposed the Mexican American War |
| Positive Good Theory | Slavery is actually good for America and Slaves- view held by Southern Landowners |
| Education reform | First free public system in PA, Horace Mann key leader, supported by Jacksonian democrats, opposed by taxpayers and many business owners |
| Women's Rights Movement | Seneca Falls Convention declared rights |
| Spoils System | The winning party gives jobs to their supporters |
| Kitchen Cabinet | Derogatory term for Jackson's advisers who weren't actually members of the cabinet |
| Tariff of Abominations | 1828, protected industry in the North, opposed by Southerners, Calhoun, Andrew Jackson |
| Nullification | a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional |
| Election of 1824 | Adams chosen by the House of Representatives(corrupt bargain with Henry Clay?) |
| 2nd Bank of the US | Jackson opposed, Biddle supported, eventually shut down |
| Wilmot Provisio | prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Mexican session of large quantity of land in the SW following the Mexican-American War |
| Panic of 1837 | Financial crisis caused by Jackson's banking policies, economic crisis in Europe, failed crops, etc. |
| Specie Circular | Jacksonian order that said federal land could only be purchased with gold or silver |
| Gadsden Purchase | $10 million purchase of land from Mexico. (AZ, NM) |
| Transcontinental Railroad | Completed on land purchased in the Gadsden Treaty |
| Fifty four forty or fight | northern boundary of Oregon- latitude line of 54 degrees, 40 minutes. Polk used this as a campaign slogan |
