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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |