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chapter 7
U.S/ 1 3rd 9 weeks review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
| Interchangeable parts | for practical purposes, identical. |
| Mass production | is the production of large amounts of standardized products, including and especially on assembly lines. |
| Industrial revolution | the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. |
| Cotton gin | invented by Eli Whitney |
| Henry Clay and the American System | he was a speaker of the house.A pre-Civil set of measures designed to unify the nation and strengthen its economy. |
| Erie Canal | A 363-mile-long artificial waterway connecting the Hudson River with Lake Erie, built between 1818 and 1825. |
| Tariff of 1816 | encourages people to buy American made goods. |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | Supreme Court case which validated the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States, denying states' rights to tax it - denied Maryland the right to tax it - established Federal powers. |
| John Quincy Adams and Nationalism | Secretary of State, he served as sixth president under Monroe. A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country - the belief that the nation's interests outweigh regional concerns. |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | Agreement in which Spain gave up all of Florida to the United States. |
| Monroe Doctrine | an American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers. |
| Missouri Compromise | passed by congress in order to maintain balance and power between slave and free states. |
| Andrew Jackson | As president he opposed or fought the Bank of America, objected to the right of individual states to nullify disagreeable federal laws, and increased the presidential powers. |
| Election of 1824 | marked the final collapse of the Republican-Federalist political framework. |
| Democratic-Republic party | of or relating to a major American political party of the early 19th century favoring a strict interpretation of the Constitution to restrict the powers of the federal government and emphasizing states' rights. |
| Spoils system | is a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends and relatives as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party. |
| Indian removal act | The law authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. |
| Trail of Tears | the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. |
| John C. Calhoun/ Tariff of Abominations(Tariff of 1828) | ts southern detractors because of the effects it had on the antebellum Southern economy. |
| Bank of United States/Conflict over the Bank of U.S. | addition to the national bank, the other two measures were establishment of a mint and imposition of a federal excise tax. |
| Whig Party | Supported the supremacy of Congress over the presidency and favored a program of modernization and economic protectionism. |
| Panic of 1837 | a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. |
| William Henry Harrison and John Tyler (Election of 1840) | William was the first whig for runnign presidency.Tyler is most commonly remembered in connection with the 1840 campaign slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too." |
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