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Chapter.. 3
An emerging nation 1783-1861
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Industrial Revolution | Effort, beginning in Britain in the late 1700's, to increase production by using machines powered by sources other than humans or animals. |
| States Rights | The powers that the constitution neither gives to the federal government nor denies to the states. |
| Compromise of 1850 | agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories. |
| Monroe Doctrine | Declaration by president Monroe in 1823 that the united states would appose efforts by any outside power to control a nation in the western hemisphere. |
| Manifest Destiny | The thought that it was fate for the united states to span across North America. |
| Market Revolution | shift from a home based, often agricultural, economy to one based on money and the buying and selling of goods. |
| Free enterprise system | Economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods. |
| Nativism | A policy of favoring native-born Americans over immigrants |
| Suffrage | The right to vote. |
| Temperance Movement | An organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption. |
| Nullify | A states rejection of a federal law. |
| The Wilmot Proviso | An event that would have abolished slavery in any territory to be acquired from mexico ever. |
| Indian Relocation Act | A law that was to encourage native americans to leave reservations, acquire vocational skills, and join the general population |
| Nationalism | National spirit or aspirations |
| Syncretism | the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion. |
| Trail of Tears | The forcefull relocation of many native americans |
| Dred Scott Decision | A ruling of the Supreme Court that stated that people of African decent were not protected by the constitution and were not citizens of the U.S. |
| Immigration | To come to a country of which one is not native of. |
| John Brown's raid | An attempt by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in 1859. |
| Tariff | A tax on imports or exports. |
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