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Unit 2 Study Guide

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He proposed the American system   Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun  
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Wrote stories of the French & Indian War such as "The Last of the Mohicans"   James F. Cooper  
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Wrote Folk tales of Dutch settlers like "Legend of Sleepy Hollow"   Washington Irving  
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Inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts   Eli Whitney  
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Supreme Court Chief Justice whose decisions strengthened the national government   John Marshall  
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This treaty removed warships from the Great Lakes following the War of 1812   Rush-Bagot Treaty  
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This treaty acquired Florida from Spain   Adams-Onis Treaty  
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Treaty that settled the Maine - Canada border   Webster - ashburton Treaty  
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This treaty set the border between Louisiana Territory and Canada at the 49th parallel   British - American Convention  
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Case that upheld the supremacy of the federal government and declared that states could not tax the National Bank   McCulloch v. Maryland  
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Case upheld federal authority over interstate commerce   Gibbons v. Ogden  
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Religious revival movement that swept the nation   The second great awakening  
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Religious group that was persecuted for the practice of polygamy   Mormonism  
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Philosophical movement derived from Romanticism. Stressed ties to nature   Transcendentalism  
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Religious community that practiced celibacy & a simple lifestyle   Shakers  
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She helped organize the 1848 women rights convention   Margaret Fuller  
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Founder and leader of the Shakers   Mother Ann Lee  
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She worked to gain more humane treatment of the mentally ill   Dorothea Dix  
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Reclusive poet whose works became well known after her death   Emily Dickinson  
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Inventor of the sewing machine   Elias Howe  
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2 examples of transcendentalist authors   Ralph Waldo Emmerson and Henry David Thoreau  
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Pioneer in education reforms   Horace Mann  
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Author of tales about early New England such as the "The Scarlet Letter"   Nathaniel Hawthorne  
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Inventor of the telegraph   Samuel Morse  
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Founder of the Mormon Church   Joseph Smith  
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Inventor of the mechanical reaper   Cyrus McCormick  
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Writer of horror tales such as "The Pit and the Pendulum"   Edgar Allen Poe  
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Leading white male abolitionist and publisher of The Liberator   William Lloyd Garrison  
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Leading black male abolitionist and publisher of The North Star   Frederick Douglas  
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Black female abolitionist known for her speech making abilities   Sojourner Truth  
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Black female abolitionist known for her work with the Underground Railroad   Harriet Tubman  
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The president during the "Era of Good Feelings"   James Monroe  
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Movement to convince people to stop drinking alcohol   Temperance Movement  
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This policy statement continued neutrality but added the warning that the U.S. wanted no more European colonization in the Western Hemisphere   Monroe Doctrine  
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Site of early textile mill town that attempted to treat workers well   Lowell, MA  
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Vice president who wrote the South Carolina Protest & Exposition against tariffs   John C. Calhoun  
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U.S. President who "Killed" the second National Bank   Andrew Jackson  
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President of the National Bank   Nicholas Biddle  
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He debated Robert Haynes in the Senate and defeated the supremacy of the national government over the states   Daniel Webster  
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He won the 1824 election by a vote of the House of Representatives in what became known as the "Corrupt Bargain"   Andrew Jackson  
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President after Jackson. Signed the Independent Treasury Act   Martin Van Buren  
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Term: Approval from the people after a big electoral victory   Mandate  
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Term: For negative attacks on candidates during elections   Mudslinging  
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What critics called Jackson's "rotation in office" of federal workers   Spoils System  
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Term: Describing a states' attempt to ignore a law passed by Congress   Nullification  
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Term: For hard currency; gold or silver coin   Specie Circular  
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When you buy something (Land, stocks) in hopes of selling it at a profit   Speculation  
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Political party formed by Andrew Jackson and that promoted states rights   Democratic Party  
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New name for the National Republican Party to show their opposition to Andrew Jackson   Whig Party  
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