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11th Grade
02/08/2011

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Nationalism
Definition
National Spirit
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American System
Definition
The plan for Americas Economy
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Adams-Onis Treaty
Definition
Purchase of Florida
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Monroe Doctrine
Definition
Stated that any European conquest to the Americas would be viewed as an act of war
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Era of Good Feelings
Definition
Time after the war were nobody is fighting over politics and the economy is doing really well. So it's an Era of Good feelings
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Sectionalism
Definition
Instead of having spirit as a whole nation you have spirit for your town or county
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Missouri Compromise of 1820
Definition
An agreement between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions
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Panic of 1819
Definition
first major financial crisis in America
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McCullough V. Maryland
Definition
A court case between banks and the state of Maryland
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Gibbons V. Ogden
Definition
Ogden complained that Gibbons couldn't run his competing steamboats
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Election of 1824
Definition
John Quincy Adams won the election.
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Corrupt Bargain
Definition
Corrupt acts in US History
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Tariff of Abominations
Definition
Increased tax on imported goods
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Jacksonian Democracy
Definition
Andrew Jackson's equal view on political parties
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Universal manhood suffrage
Definition
Voting rights that any man in USA could vote regardless of Social class and income.
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Spoils system
Definition
Where the winning political partie gives some of their supporters government jobs as a reward for voting.
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Democrats
Definition
People of the Democratic party
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Whigs
Definition
A political party against Andrew Jackson
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Nullification Crisis
Definition
Got rid of the tariff of 1828
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John C. Calhoun
Definition
7th vice president of the united states, First politician to say they were leaving the union
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Exposition and Protest
Definition
Document against the tariff of 1828
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Bank War
Definition
Andrew Jackson tried destroying the 2nd bank of America
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"Pet Banks"
Definition
A derogatory term for banks that received money from the US treasury
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Panic of 1837
Definition
Was a financial crisis
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Cotton Gin
Definition
Time of mass cotton production
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Cotton Kingdom
Definition
Cotton producing region of the US
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Plantation System
Definition
Division of land under smaller private owned land
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John Deere
Definition
Made the plow
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Cyrus McCormick
Definition
Founder of Harvest Machine Co.
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Industrial Revolution
Definition
A time period where people move from agriculture to inventing and running large companies
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Factory System
Definition
Where people made goods in factories instead of on plantations
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Interchangeable Parts
Definition
Parts that can be swapped for another
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Nativism
Definition
Cares for people already living in a country but doesn't care about immigrants
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Know-Nothings
Definition
When the country feared too many immigrants from Ireland and Germany were coming to America
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Erie Canal
Definition
A waterway in New York
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Robert Fulton
Definition
An American inventor that invented the steamboat
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Samuel Morse
Definition
Co-inventor of morse code and invented the one wire telegraph
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Internal Improvements
Definition
Community projects for the Community
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Manifest Destiny
Definition
US was destined to expand across the entire what is present day USA
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Oregon Trail
Definition
Connected towns on the Missouri River
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Indian Removal Act
Definition
An act that said Indians had a choice to give up their land or not... But most were pressured into giving up their land
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Sequoyah
Definition
Made reading and writing in Cherokee possible
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Worchester v. Georgia
Definition
Made the law where you need a license to live on cherokee land unconstitutional
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Trail of Tears
Definition
Forced movement and relocation of Indians
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Texas Annexation
Definition
America took land from Mexico started the Mexi American war
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Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Definition
Solved border issues between USA and Britain Colonies
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"Fifty-four Forty or Fight!"
Definition
A slogan for the Oregon Boundary Dispute
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