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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abolitionist | someone who opposes slavery - The Quakers |
| fugitive | a runaway slave |
| Andrew Jackson | nicknamed Old Hickory, american hero during the Battle of New Orleans |
| Lewis and Clark | expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark they explored the Louisiana Purchase |
| Jefferson Davis | 1st and only president of the Confederate States of America |
| Robert E Lee | american soldier who refused Abraham Lincoln's offer to lead the Union Army - aggreed to lead the Confederate forces. He was defeated at the Battle of Gettysburgh |
| John Marshall | served in the House of Rep and as U.S. Secretary of State. Later became Chief Justice and involved in Marbury v. Madison |
| Samuel Slater | considered founder of American cotton industry |
| War Hawk | young members of Congress |
| Eli Whitney | inventor of cotton gin, invention increased massive production of cotton |
| William Lloyd Garrison | journalist and reformer published the Liberator and helped found the anti slavery society |
| Thomas Jefferson | member of two Continental Congresses, declarations main author and one of its signers |
| James Madison | delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 4th President of the US, author of Federalist Papers |
| Dred Scott | filed suit for his freedom saying living in a free state made him a free man |
| Alexander Hamilton | member of continental congress and constitutional convention, one of the authors of Federalist Papers, developed Bank of the US |
| John Adams | vice president to George Washington, 2nd president of the US |
| John Quincy Adams | Son of president John Adams, involved in the Monroe Doctrine, 6th president |
| James Monroe | negotiator of the Louisiana Purchase |
| James Polk | 11th president, settles the Oregon boundary with Great Britain and successfully conducted the Mexican-American war |
| Appalachian Mtns | thousands of american settled near these mtns in the early 1800's |
| California | admitted as a state in 1850 |
| Erie Canal | runs from albany to buffalo |
| Mississippi River | flows from minnesota south to the gulf of mexico |
| philadelphia | capital of the US from 1790-1800's |
| Rio grande | spanish for great river,border between texas and mexico |
| seneca falls | village in west central NY, 1st womans rights convention in the us |
| oregon trail | a 2000 mile stretch thru the great plains from western missisouri to the oregon territory |
| battle of gettysburgh | a union cival war victory that turned the tied against the conferederates at gettysburgh |
| battle of shiloh | a civil war battle in tenessese in which the union army gained control over the mississippi valley |
| bill of rights | 1st ammendent |
| dred scott v stanford | the right to sue in federal court, denied enslaved african american US citizenship |
| depression | economic growth goes down |
| emancipation proclamation | an ordered issued by lincoln freeing the slaves in areas and rebelling against the union |
| federalism | US system of gov in which power is distributed between a central gov and individual states |
| gadsen purchase | US purchase of land from mexico in present day Arizona and New Mexico |
| industrial revolution | a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufactoring and production |
| jays treaty | John Jay set this agreement to work out problems between Britain and the US over Northwestern lands |
| judicial review | supreme courts power to declare acts of congress unconstitutional |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | a law that allowed voters to choose whether to allow slavery |
| Louisiana Purchase | the purchase of French land between Mississippi River and the Rocky mtns - doubled the size of the US |
| Mercantalism | an economic system |
| Marbury v Madison | a ruling that established supreme court power of judicial review, allows them to review the laws to make sure they are constitutional |
| Monroe doctorine | Monroe's statement declaring that any attempt by a foreign country to take over another colony act of hostilaty |
| nulification | John C Calhoun dispute which states could ignore federal law if they violitated the constitution |
| politician party | a group of people who organize to help elect gov officials |
| secession | the act of formally withdrawing from the union |
| sectionolism | devotion to the interest of one region or whole |
| siege | union army's 6 week blockade |
| Spoils system | a politicians practice of given gov jobs to his/her supporters |
| states right doctorine | a belief that states power should be greater than federal gov |
| telegraph | machine perfected by Samuel F B Moore used to send messages thru long distance wire |
| temperace movement | encourage people to drink less achohol |
| textile | cloth |
| trade union | workers organization which tried to improve workers condition |
| trail of tears | 800 mile march from Cheereoke homeland to Indian territory |
| Treaty of Ghent | end to war of 1812 |
| war of 1812 | war between US and England interfering against the trade in France |
| washington's fare well address | appeared in Philadelphia addressing economy, political partied and foreign policy |
| worcester v. georgia | make georgia removal of Cheereoke's illegal |
| Woman's rights movement | gave woman equal rights |
| yankees | people from the North |
| popular soveirghenty | idea that politicial authority belongs to the people |
| confederate states of america | southerns states when they succeeded from the union |
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