| A | B |
|---|
| abolitionist | someone working to end slavery |
| agricultural | farming |
| Henry Clay | Speaker of the House of Representatives and political leader from Kentucky |
| American System | Clay's plan for economic development |
| Missouri Compromise | Agreement that temporarily settled the issue of slavery in the territories |
| Andrew Jackson | military hero and seventh president |
| Jacksonian Democracy | Political philosophy that puts its faith in the common people |
| Trail of Tears | Path the Cherokee were forced to travel from Georgia to Indian Territory |
| Danie Webster | Senate leader from Mass.; "silver tongued orator" |
| market revolution | economic changes where people buy and sell goods rather than make them themselves |
| free enterprise | system in which individuals and businesses control the means of production |
| entrepreneurs | bussimessmen |
| Samuel F. B. Morse | inventor of the telegraph |
| Lowell Textile mills | early factories ;where cloth was made |
| strike | work stoppages by workers |
| immigration | migration of people into the US |
| Great Potato Famine | Problem in Ireland in the 1840's |
| National Traders' Union | early national workers'union |
| Second Great Awakening | widespread spiritual movement |
| Unitarians | religious movement that emphasized reason |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | transcendentalist philosopher |
| transcendentalism | philosophy that emphasized the truth to be found in nature and intuition |
| William Lloyd Garrison | abolitionist leader |
| Frederick Douglass | escaped slave who became a noted aboliionist leader |
| Nat Turner | leader of a violent slave rebellion |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | leader in the abolitionist and women's rights movements |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Convention held in 1848 to argue for women's rights |
| Sojourner Truth | Former slave who became an abolitionist and womenn's rights activist |
| depression | a period when economic activity declines |
| electoral college | delegates selected to vote directly for president |
| states' rights | a political idea that says federal power should be limited and states should keep power for themselves |
| nullification | The belief that states could ignore federal laws they did not like |
| Mexican Cession | Land received as a result of the Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo (including California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas) |
| manifest destiny | belief that the US would expand from Atlantic to Pacific |
