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US Hist Ch. 6 Vocab
Chapter 6 Terms and Names
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Eli Whitney | important American inventor who first demonstrated the use of interchangeable parts and invented the cotton gin |
| interchangeable parts | standardized parts that can be used in place of one another |
| mass production | the production of goods in large quantities, mad possible by the use of machinery and the division of labor |
| Industrial Revolution | the change in social and economic organization that resulted from the replacement of hand tools with machines and from the development of large scale production |
| cotton gin | a machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton |
| Henry Clay | Speaker of the House who proposed the American System |
| American System | a set of measures designed to unify the nation and strengthen its economy |
| National Road | a federally funded road that extended from Cumberland, Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois |
| Erie Canal | a 363 mile long artificial waterway connecting the Hudson River with Lake Erie |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | an 1819 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that Maryland had no right to tax the Bank of the United States, thereby strengthening the power of the federal government |
| John Quincy Adams | Secretary of State under President Monroe who established a foreign policy guided by nationalism, also later President of the United States |
| nationalism | a devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | an 1819 agreement in which Spain gave control of Florida to the United States |
| Monroe Doctrine | a policy of US opposition to European interference in the affairs of the Western Hemispher |
| Missouri Compromise | a series of agreements passed by Congress to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states |
| Andrew Jackson | winner of the 1828 presidential election who portrayed himself as a man of humble origins and started the Democratic-Republican political party |
| Democratic-Republican Party | a political party known for its support of strong state governments, founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1792 |
| spoils system | the practice of winning candidates' rewarding their supporters with government jobs |
| Indian Removal Act | a law that forced Native American peoples east of the Mississippi River to relocated to lands in the West |
| Trail of Tears | the marches during which thousands of Cherokee peoples died while being forcibly removed from Georgia to the Indian Territory |
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