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history
Term | Definition |
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Interchangeable parts | Parts that exactly alike. |
Mass production | Production of goods in large quantities. |
Industrial Revolution | The change in social and economic organization that took place from the replacement of hand tools to machines |
Cotton gin | Cotton engine |
American system | Measures designed to to unify and strengthen its economy. |
National road | government paid road, started in 1811, stretched from Maryland to Illinois. |
Erie canal | 363 mile long waterway connecting the Hudson River and the Erie Canal. 1817-1835 |
McCulloch vs. Maryland | 1819 court ruled Maryland cannot tax the Bank Of The United States. |
Adams-Onis Treaty | Spain gave up Florida to America |
Monroe Doctrine | USA not involving itself in European affairs or interfere with colonies in Western Hemisphere |
Nationalism | Devotion to one's nation |
Missouri Compromise | Set Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. |
Democratic-Republican Party | Currently Democratic party and tried to sabotage John Adam |
Spoils System | Upcoming officials throw out former members and replace them with friends |
Indian Removal Act | Forced Native Americans to move west |
Trail of Tears | Cherokee sent off in groups of 1000 on 800 mile journey. More than a quarter of them died |
Tariff Of Abominations | "Disgusting and loathsome tariff" reducing British exports to the USA and forced South to purchase more expensive Northern manufactured goods. |
Bank of United States | banks funded by federal government and private investors. one in 1791 and second in 1816 |
Whig Party | political party formed in 1834 against Andrew Jackson |
Panic of 1837 | Financial crisis where banks closed and credit system collapsed |
Henry Clay | House speaker |
Eli Whitney | Made 10,000 muskets in two years. |
John Quincy Adams | Secretary of State. |
Andrew Jackson | Political opponent again James Monroe. |
Daniel Webster | Senator of MA |
John C. Calhoun | Andrew Jackson's vice president |
Martin Van Buren | Ran against Whig Party. Son of tavern owner and was a common man. |
William Henry Harrison | Wealthy, ran for Whig Party. |
John Tyler | Was against Whig Party, refereed to as "His Accidency" |