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Term | Definition |
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Federal Judiciary Act | est judicial review |
foreign policy | how to deal w/ foreign countries |
Alexander Hamilton | secretary of war-Wasington |
political party | group of people w/ same pol view |
tariff | tax of exports imports |
cabinet | advisers to pres |
George Washington | first pres |
John Adams | second pres |
Thomas Jefferson | third pres |
Marbury v. Madison | est jud review |
Louisiana Purchase | double size of us |
unconstitutional | againt constitution |
Francis Scott Key | wrote national antem |
James Madison | fourth pres |
Judiciary Act of 1801 | gave sup ct more power |
Sacagawea | translator for l&c |
impressment | imprisonment |
Judicial review | checking of laws |
Meriwether Lewis | leader of expedition |
William Clark | leader of expedition |
Industrial Revolution | increased manu |
American System | american way of economy |
cotton gin | increased cotton prod |
Monroe Doctrine | forbid europe from colonization |
factory system | low wages and child labor |
sectionalism | more concern for section than whole |
Samuel Morse | invented telegraph |
James Monroe | pres-Monroe doctrine |
interchangeable parts | quickened prod |
Missouri Compromise | compromise on slavery |
nationalism | patriotism |
Robert Fulton | invented steamboat |
Henry Clay | great compromiser |
Eli Whitney | invented cotton gin |
Jacksonian Democracy | power to the people |
Tariff of Abominations | south hated it |
Panic of 1837 | depression |
John C. Calhoun | vice pres of Jackson |
spoils system | pres gave power to friends |
Andrew Jackson | seventh pres |
Indian Removal Act | removed indians |
Doctrine of nullification | states could nullify laws |
Trail of Tears | cherokee moved to oklahoma |
secession | states broke away |
depression | economic crisis |
land speculator | took land and sold it |
Manifest destiny | us to west coast |
California Gold Rush | gold found in ca |
Brigham Young | wrote a book |
Push-pull factors | immigration to us |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | ended mex war |
Santa Fe Trail | traders went to santa fe |
famine | not enough food |
emigrant | left country |
Oregon Trail | settlers to oregon |
Mexican cession | large tract of land |
immigrant | moved to us |
James Polk | pres annexed tx |
prejudice | discrimination |
underground railroad | slaves went north |
labor union | helped workers |
Sojourner Truth | spoke for abolition |
Horace Mann | wrote book |
transcendentalism | movement |
strike | labor disagreement |
Seneca Falls Convention | started womens rights |
Harriet Tubman | spoke for abolition |
Dorothea Dix | prison reform |
temperance movement | against beer alcohol |
abolition | against slavery |
suffrage | voting rights |
Frederick Douglass | abolition |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | womens rights |
Wilmot Proviso | no mo;re slave states |
Dred Scott v. Sanford | sup ct case |
Fugitive Slave Act | north must catch slaves |
Stephen Douglas | ran against lincoln |
Abraham Lincoln | sixteenth pres |
Compromise of 1850 | henry clay-admitted ca as free state |
popular sovereignty | power to people |
Harpers Ferry | tried to inspire slaves to fight |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote uncle tom |
Jefferson Davis | pres of conf |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | sparked war |
Confederate States of America | seceded from union |
Kansas-Nebraska Act | admitted states |
John Brown | extremist |
Ft. Sumter | first battle civil war |
1st Bull Run | second battle civil war |
Battle of Antietam | bloodiest battle |
Battle of Gettysburg | turning pt |
Appomattox Court House | surrender |
blockade | blocked goods shipping |
cavalry | horse soldiers |
Emancipation Proclamation | freed slaves |
Robert E. Lee | general south |
Gettysburg Address | famous speech |
Robert E. Lee | gen souith |
William T. Sherman | gen north |
54th Massachusetts Regiment | black union soldier regiment |
John Wilkes Booth | killed lincoln |
Siege of Vicksburg | completed anaconda plan |
Ulysses S. Grant | gen north |
13th Amendment | freed slaves |
14th Amendment | black citizens |
15th Amendment | suffrage for blacks |