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Father of the American factory system who built the first cotton mill in Rhode Island   Samuel Slater  
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Invented the process of separating seeds from fibers so that more cotton could be produced   Eli Whitney  
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The "Great Compromise", American System, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850   Henry Clay  
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President who issued warning to European countries to stay out of Western Hemisphere   James Monroe  
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President who won election of 1824 as a result of the "corrupt bargin"   John Quincy Adams  
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Person MOST responsible for disrupting political unity and ending "Era of Good Feelings"   Andrew Jackson  
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President known for the "Age of the Common Man" and policy of Indian Removal   Andrew Jackson  
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South Carolina politician who opposed tariffs and favored states right and nullification   John C Calhoun  
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Promoted nationalism by establishing language standards for American English   Noah Webster  
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Father of Transcendentalism; promoted ideas of individualism, self-reliance, love of nature   Ralph Waldo Emerson  
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Transcendentalist who lived on Walden Pond and wrote book "Civil Disobedience"   Henry David Thoreau  
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Group of painters who promoted nationalism by painting natural landscapes   Hudson River School  
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The term "Trail of Tears" is associated with the   Cherokee Indians  
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Sought equal rights in the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions at Seneca Falls, NY   Women  
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Thoreau said, "The government is best which governs least", agreeing closely with the ideas of   Thomas Jefferson  
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American author wrote tales such as "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"   Washington Irving  
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Reformer who worked to establish humane treatment of the mentally ill   Dorothea Dix  
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Published the "Liberator" in which he condemned slavery on moral grounds   William Lloyd Garrison  
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Published the "North Star" in which he told about evils of slavery and supported abolition   Frederick Douglas  
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Daughters of SC slaveholders that became leading abolitionist in South   Grimke Sisters  
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Abolitionist who traveled throughout North giving anti-slavery speeches   Frederick Douglas  
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Reasons Americans went West   Goldrush, Manifest Destiny, and Religious Freedom  
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Henry Clay's economic plan for the nation; included tariffs, internal improvements, and BUS (Banks of US)   American System  
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John Marshall's Supreme Court decisions did this to the powers of the federal government   Increased it  
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The idea that national interests should be placed ahead of regional or sectional interests   Nationalism  
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Geographic link between the western states and the rest of the world before the Erie Canal   Mississippi River  
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Missouri Compromise addressed this issue; declared Maine a free state and Missouri a slave state   Slavery  
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Most significant impact of the Jacksonian Era on American policies   Extension of Voting  
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The act of appointing political supporters and friends to government offices is known as the   Spoils System  
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Ordinance of Nullification was passed by South Carolina in 1832 in reaction to   Tariff of Abominations  
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Andrew Jackson's policy toward the eastern Indian tribes can BEST be characterized as   Indian Removal  
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Northerners opposed this war because they knew Texas wanted to extend slavery into new territory   Mexican-American War  
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Religious movement of the 1800s influenced social reform by inspiring believers to improve society   2nd Great Awakening  
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Many Southerners strongly defended this because the southern economy needed it to prosper   Slavery  
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Transcendentalists believed the power to change the world rested with the   Individual  
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Ideas emphasized by Transcendentalists   Self-reliance, nature, abolition of slavery  
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Horace Mann was BEST associated with this reform movement   Public Education  
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Act of disobeying laws that are unjust: Thoreau, Gandhi, King Jr   Civil Disobedience  
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Name of movement that sought to end slavery in the United States   Abolitionist  
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Religious group that influenced abolitionist with belief in "inner light"   Quakers  
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Customs that controlled the lives of women in the early 19th century were referred to as this   Cult of Domesticity  
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Name for pre-Civil War era   Antebellum  
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In the mid-1800s most American manufacturing was located in the   Northeast  
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War that led to argument over the extension of slavery into new territories   Mexican-American War  
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Treaty with Spain that gave the US possession of Florida   Adams-Onis Treaty  
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Treaty ended Mexican War, est Rio Grande River as southern border; led to conflict over slavery in the west   Guadalope-Hidalgo  
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Doubled the size of US; unconstitutional, executive branch can't buy land   Louisiana Purchase  
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Site gold was discovered to begin gold rush   Sutter's Mill  
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Territory purchase that completed sized of US excluding Hawaii and Alaska   Gadsden Purchase  
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Transportation improvement that improved trade between New York and the Ohio River Valley   Erie Canal  
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Act that promoted nationalism by maintaining the balance of power in Congress   Missouri Compromise  
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Supreme Court Case that extended federal control over interstate commerce   Gibbons v. Ogden  
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Supreme Court Case that declared the Bank of the US to be constitutional   McCullough v. Maryland  
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The name of tariff given by those who thought it hurt the South while helping northern businessmen   Tariff of Abominations  
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