Lime green sheet of paper; weekly pop quiz
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Panic of 1837 | Severe economic depression that hits the nation after Van Buren's election.
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| Kitchen Cabinet | Informal group of advisers who met with Andrew Jackson.
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| Monroe Doctrine | Warning to European powers to make no more attempts to colonize in the Americas.
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| Gibbons v. Ogden | The right to nullify federal laws considered unconstitutional.
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| Nullification Crisis | Dispute between the states and the federal government over the Tariff of 1828.
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| Spoils System | The practice of giving jobs to loyal supporters.
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| James K. Polk | Our 8th president after winning the Election of 1836.
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| Missouri Compromise | Compromise that brings Missouri into the Union as a slave state; Maine as a free state.
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| Trail of Tears | Name given to the forced evacuation of Indians from leave Georgia.
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| Whigs | New political party formed in opposition to Jackson. Harrison is their candidate in 1840.
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| Interchangeable Parts | Process developed by Eli Whitney that called for making each part of a machine exactly the same.
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| Textiles | Cloth items.
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| Industrial Revolution | A period of industrial growth where the manufacture of goods by hand is replaced by machine.
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| Trade Union | Groups of workers who organized to get better pay and working conditions.
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| State's Rights | Supreme Court decision that reinforced federal government's authority over the states.
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| Technology | Tools used to produce items or work.
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| Telegraph | Invention of Samuel Morse that could send information great distances over wire.
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| John Deere | He developed a new steel plow for farming.
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| Underground Railroad | Network of hiding places where a slave could escape to freedom.
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| Seneca Falls | Convention meeting place of the women's movement to declare their independence.
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| Abolition | To end slavery.
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| Temperance Movement | A reform movement to get people to drink less.
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| Second Great Awakening | A period of dramatic religous conversions in the 1790's.
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| Transcendentalism | Belief that people could rise above the material needs of life.
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| Utopia | Belief that people could form perfect societies.
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| Emancipation | The act of freeing all slaves.
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| Mexico | The U.S goes to war with this nation due to the annexation of Texas.
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| Martin Van Buren | Democratic candidate for president in 1844 who favors the annexation of Texas and Oregon.
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| Manifest Destiny | Phrase used by John O'Sullivan that meant someday the U.S would expand all the way to the Pacific.
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| Texas | Becomes the 28th state in the Union in 1845.
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| Bear Flag Republic | Name given to California republic after winning its independence from Mexico.
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo | Treaty ending the Mexican War in 1848.
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| Forty-Niners | Nickname given to those who head west to California in search of gold.
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| Gadsden Purchase | Southern part of Arizona and New Mexico purchased in 1853 to build a railroad.
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| Mexican Cession | Land purchased from Mexico in the American southwest after the Mexican War.
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| Mormons | Religious settlers in Utah in the 1830's.
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