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| president who believed in nationalism and issued a statement that warned European nations against interfering in the Western Hemisphere |
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| the idea that all the people should pull together with a sense of strong pride in their country |
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| time period of strong national pride in which there were few national issues |
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| territory ruled by Spain that served as a safe haven for escaped slaves and Indians |
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| General who became popular during the War of 1812 and attacked the Spanish in Florida, leading Spain to agree to sell it for $5 million |
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| statement issued by James Monroe that warned European nations against interfering in the Western Hemisphere |
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| Cherokee who developed an alphabet for the Cherokee language |
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| law that gave Jackson the power to move Indians to land west of the Mississippi River |
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| land in what is now Oklahoma that the Indians were forced to move to because of the Indian Removal Act |
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| Cherokee leader who took the Indians case to the Supreme Court; the Supreme Court said the Cherokee could keep their land, but Jackson wouldn't support it. |
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| terrible 800-mile journey to Indian Territory in which many Indians died |
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| time period of the late 1700s to the 1800s in which goods were being produced by machine instead of by hand |
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| the way people use new ideas to make tools that improve people's lives |
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| man who put all the stages of cloth-making, from spinning thread to weaving to dyeing, together in one factory |
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| inventor of the cotton gin (actually he just adapted one already made) |
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| machine that cleaned cotton much faster than by hand, causing increased demand for cotton and then more slaves to grow it. |
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| machine invented by Cyrus McCormick that made harvesting wheat much easier |
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| road built by the federal government that allowed settlers to travel west and good to go to eastern markets easier |
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| inventor of the steamboat |
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| ditch dug through the land and filled with water that connects other bodies of water |
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| long canal connecting Albany, NY, to Lake Erie; this canal allowed ships to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes |
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| meetings in which people's religious feelings were strengthened |
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| movement that urged people to drink only small amounts of alcohol or none at all |
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| reformers who attacked slavery as an evil that had to be abolished |
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| abolitionist, an escaped slave, who gave powerful speeches against slavery |
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| man who wrote an abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, that condemned slavery |
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| a woman abolitionist, an escaped slave, who took as her mission to sojourn, or travel, spreading the truth about slavery |
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| Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
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| women who worked hard for both temperance and abolition |
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