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| Eli Whitney, 1773 removes seeds from cotton fiber used for making cloth |
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| Robert Fulton develop a steamboat with a powerful engine to carry passengers and cargo. |
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| Development of textile mills |
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| New England around 1800. Textile mills used waterpower to power the mill produced cloth from cotton for manufactured goods. Mills greatly increased the demand for cotton |
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| Artifical waterways bulit to connect larger boieds of water. They inporved water transportation system tying eastern and western parts of the country together. |
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| connected the Hudson river in NYC with Buffalo on Lake Erie opened on October 26, 1825 |
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| Henry Clay (great compromiser)reached in March 1820 designed to preserve the North and South. Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. The agreement banned slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory north of the 36'30'N parallel (between Tennessee and Kentucky) |
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| signed by Spain in 1819. Spain gave east Florida to the U.S. and abandoned all claims to west Florida. U.S. give up claims to Spanish Texas began repaying $5 million to citizens that claimed Spain owed them for damages. agreed on a border between U.S. and Spanish possessions in the West |
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| loyalty to the region where they lived- sectionalism became more intense as differences arose over national policies |
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| represented Mass. was in favor of the tariff to protect industry in the North |
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| because of the issure of the tariffs and nullifications SC threatened to secede. SC said that states had powers not granted by the federal government (state sovereignty) |
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| December 2, 1823 a statement was issured by President Monroe. The Monroe Doctrine states that the U.S. would not interfere with any EXISTING European colonies but hte U.S. would not allow any NEW European colonies in the Americas. |
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| act passed by Congress in 1830. federal govt to pay Native Americans to move west. Jackson sent officials to negotiate with Native Americans. Most Native Americans felt pressured to accept payment for their land. In 1834, Congress created the Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) for the Native American's to move to. ( Trail of Tears forced march of Native Americans to Indian Territory |
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Cherokee Nation refused to move and give up its land. Georgia said that had no right to this land.
Cherokee sued the state govt and took their case to the Supreme Court in Worchester v. Georgia. President Jackson suppost the removal of the Cherokee and he ignored the Supreme Court's ruling by Chief Justice John Marshall. |
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| Sauk and fox Indians try to regain their land in Illinois |
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| Seminole Indian leader, went to war against the U.S. to keep his people's land |
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| presidential candidates who received the support of their home states rather than the support of the national party |
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| attempts to ruin an opponents reputation with insults |
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| overwhelming (great) victory |
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| system in which noted officials carry out laws |
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| the practice of replacing govt employees with the winning candidate's supporters associated with Andrew Jackson's presidency |
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| delegates fromt he states selcted the party's presidential candidate |
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| tax paid on imported goods |
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| fromer Congressman from Tennessee helped fight for texas indep. dies in Alamo |
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| recruited people to come ot TX, called the father of TX |
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| become a mexican citizen, learn spanish, become Catholic |
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| mexicans discourage settelement later |
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| stop American immigration and place taxes on imports from US |
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| commander of TX army and 1st president of Lone Star Republic |
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| Commander of the Alamo who sent messages to America asking for troops |
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| Dictator of Mexico who leads his troops but defeated at Battle of San Jacinto |
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| Texans win many people leave |
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| texans outnumbered 180 to thousands of Mexicans siege run of of supplies, all men in Alamo killed |
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| Texans surrender and are executed on Santa Anna's orders San Jacinto finall battle Texas gains indep. "Lone Star Republic |
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| idea popular during the 1800's that the country must expand its boundaries to the Pacific |
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