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06 Heritage Studies5
The Young Nation Grows
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| interchangeable part | identical part of a product that can be replaced with a new part if broken |
| nullify | to make invalid; to refuse to obey |
| rationalism | the belief that man’s reason is above the truth of God’s Word |
| transcendentalism | a philosophy during the late 1830s that taught that truth is found in feelings and senses rather than in the Word of God |
| Asahel Nettleton | evangelist of the Second Great Awakening who graduated from Yale |
| Andrew Jackson | president signed a bill that forced the Indians to move west,elected president in 1828, asked the Secretary of the Treasury to break the law by not putting funds in the national bank |
| Indian Removal Act | t bill allowed the national government to relocate Indians from the southern part of the United States to west of the Mississippi River |
| John Quincy Adams | served as a foreign minister, a senator, and a secretary of state before running for president in 1824, received support for the presidency from the Speaker of the House, chosen as president in 1824 |
| James Polk | president believed in the idea of “Manifest Destiny” |
| Industrial Revolution | period in America where there was a change in the manufacturing process due to the many inventions developed in the late 1700s to the early 1800s |
| Nicholas Trist | lost his job after Congress accepted the treaty he wrote between the United States and Mexico as part of the Mexican Cession |
| Peter Cooper | invented steam locomotive |
| John Deere | invented steel plow |
| Elias Howe | invented sewing machine |
| Cyrus McCormick | invented reaper bill allowed the national government to relocate Indians from the southern part of the United States to west of the Mississippi River |
| Eli Whitney | invented cotton gin |
| Democrat Party | political party that Andrew Jackson and his followers created |
| Robert Fulton | person who built on the ideas of others to invent the first steamboat |
| Samuel Slater | person who used his knowledge of building and operating the machines used in British mills to manage the first successful American factory in the 1790s |
| Whig Party | National Republican Party |
| why Christians can’t justify “Manifest Destiny” | God made no such promise to America in the Bible. |
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