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Lexi Sosa s0407770 Pd.1 SS Review Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| federal judiciary act | created a cabinet and said to stay away from political parties. |
| foreign policy | the policies about foreign relations |
| alexander hamilton | head of federalists |
| cabinet | president's advisors; secretary of war, state, and treasury |
| political party | group of people who join together because of similar views |
| Thomas jefferson | wrote the declaration of independence, organized Democratic Republicans |
| tariff | a tax |
| George Washington | First president |
| John Adams | second president of the united states, first vice president |
| Marbury V. Madison | court case that established judicial review |
| Meriwether Lewis | explored new lands of Louisiana Purchase |
| unconstitutional | not constitutional, goes against the constitution |
| Louisiana Purchase | When we bought from France the Louisiana territory that doubled our size. |
| William Clark | explored new lands of Louisiana Purchase |
| Francis Scott key | composed star spangled banner after attack of ft mchenry |
| Impressment | taking men into the navy by force. |
| Sacagawea | helped Lewis and Clark talk to Native Americans, translator. |
| James Madison | Fourth president |
| Judiciary Act of 1801 | gave more judge positions and said it was a lifetime job |
| Industrial Revolution | beginning of mass production, interchangeable parts; lower cost of goods; factory system; urbanization; deplorable work conditions. |
| Cotton gin | cleaned cotton more efficiently |
| American System | had to make a statement, raise revenue, and create a bank |
| Monroe Doctrine | non-interference of European nations in a Western Hemisphere |
| Factory System | brought workers and machines together under one roof |
| sectionalism | loyalty to the interest of your own region |
| Samuel Morse | invented morse code and telegraph |
| James Monroe | 5th president, last founding father and created Monroe Doctrine |
| interchangeable parts | identical parts that could be used interchangeably |
| nationalism | a sense of pride and interest in one's country |
| Missouri Compromise | Said Missouri would be a slave state and Maine would be a free |
| Robert Fulton | invented the steam boat |
| Henry Clay | peace maker: American System and Missouri Compromise |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts |
| Jacksonian Democracy | political movement of the common man |
| Spoils system | rewards its supporters by letting them hold positions in office |
| Indian removal act | made them move west of the Mississippi and give up their homelands |
| trail of tears | hard trail the Cherokee had to take |
| tariff of abominations | protective tariff that angered the south because of the taxed goods |
| John C Calhoun | senator |
| Doctrine of nullification | said that state's had the right to nullify a law if it was unconstitutional |
| Secession | to leave the union |
| Panic of 1837 | financial crisis that made money go down and unemployment go up |
| Andrew Jackson | seventh president and very controversial |
| John Quincy Adams | sixth President of the United States. He served as American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional representative |
| depression | long term down turn in economic activity |
| land speculator | Someone who buys land just to sell it off at a higher price |
| Santa Fe Trail | trail from new mexico to missouri |
| Oregon Trail | trail that bisected two major tribes, the pawnee and the cheynee |
| Manifest Destiny | belief to expand west |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | ended the war |
| Mexican Cession | Mexico ceded land to the U.S |
| Mexican Cession | Me |
| California Gold Rush | a era of gold mining in California |
| emigrant | people that left a country |
| emigrant | people that left a country |
| immigrant | people that came to a country |
| immigrant | people that came to a country |
| push-pull factors | factors that pushed and pulled immigrants to land and from laand |
| famine | widespread scarcity of food |
| prejudice | to discriminate against someone because of their race, ethics, religion, or moral values |
| Brigham Young | president of the church |
| Brigham Young | president of the church |
| James Polk | was the eleventh president |
| civil disobedience | acting against the law in a civil way |
| transcendentalism | religious and philosophical movement |
| transcendentalism | religious and philosophical movement |
| temperance movement | movement to end the consumption of alcohol |
| temperance movement | movement to end the consumption of alcohol |
| labor union | union of workers |
| labor union | union of workers |
| strike abolition | union workers went on strike for better working conditions |
| underground railroad | railroad that helped many slaves escape slavery |
| suffrage | right to vote |
| Seneca Falls Convention | convention for women's suffrage |
| Horace Mann | father of education |
| suffrage | right to vote |
| Horace Mann | father of education |
| Sojourner Truth | abolitionist who used to be a slave |
| Dorthea Dix | reformer for mental hospitals and prisons |
| Harriet Tubman | sneaked people in the underground railroad and helped people to freedom |
| Frederick Douglass | abolitionist who used to be a slave |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | fought for women's suffrage |
| Sojourner Truth | abolitionist who used to be a slave |
| Harriet Tubman | sneaked people in the underground railroad and helped people to freedom |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | fought for women's suffrage |
| Wilmot proviso | would've banned slavery in the states, but congress denied it |
| fugitive slave act | said that any slave found escaping slave states would have to be returned |
| dred scott v. sanford | denied slaves rights |
| Stephan Douglas | brought popular sovereignty to the states |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the united states, 16th. |
| Compromise of 1850 | California would be a free state, but they had to pass the Fugitive Slave Act |
| popular sovereignty | rule by the party |
| harpers ferry | John Brown raided it to inspire slaves |
| harriet beecher stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the confederacy |
| uncle tom's cabin | book exposing the harsh truths about slavery |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | divided Kansas and Nebraska into two territories and brought popular sovereignty into the states |
| confederate states of america | South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, —Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina |
| John Brown | raided harper's ferry |
| ft sumter | place where the first battle took place |
| 1st bull run | first major land battle in Virginia; confederate victory |
| Battle of Antietam | bloodiest fight in one day in u.s history |
| Battle of gettysburg | turning point of war; union victory |
| Appomattox court house | place where the confederacy surrendered to the union |
| blockade | effort to cut off food, supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force, either in part or totally |
| cavalry | troops trained to fight on horseback |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Abolished slavery in the union |
| Gettysburg address | speech given by Abe after victory at Gettysburg |
| Robert E Lee | general for the confederacy |
| William T Sherman | went on Sherman's march and destroyed everything in the south |
| John Wilkes Booth | Assinated the abe Lincoln |
| 54th Mass. Regiment | first military unit consisting of black soliders |
| Siege of vicksburg | Union gained control of the Mississippi and divided the Confederacy |
| Ulysses S. Grant | general of the union |
| 13th Amendment | abolitshed slavery |
| 14th amendment | gave citizenship to anyone born in the u.s |
| 15th amendment | gave black males over 21 the right to vote |
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