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Vocab and Who Am I
Chapter 7
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History
11th Grade
11/06/2007

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Industrial Revolution
Definition
replacement of hard tools with machines and the development of large scale industrial production
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Tariff of 1816
Definition
a protective tariff designed to aid american industries
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nativists
Definition
ones who favor the interests of native born people
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labor union
Definition
organization of wage earners or salaried employees for mutual aid and protection
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cotton gin
Definition
a machine that cleaned seeds from cotton fibers
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American System
Definition
set of measures designed to unify the nation and sterengthen its economy through protective tariffs and a national bank.
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nationalism
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a devotion to the interests and culture of ones nation
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Adams Onis treaty
Definition
an 1819 agreement Spain gave control of the territory of Florida to the United States
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Monroe Doctrine
Definition
opposition to any European interference in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
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Missouri Compromise
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maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states
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Jacksonian Democracy
Definition
movement for more democracy and opposed any signs of aristocracy in America
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spoils system
Definition
giving canidates' supporters government jobs
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Indian Removal Act
Definition
forced Native Americans to move west of the mississippi river
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Trail of Tears
Definition
marches where the cherokee people were forcibly removed from thier lands. Many died along the way.
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Tariff of Abominations
Definition
Seemed to southerners to be enriching the North at their expense.
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nullification
Definition
a states refusal to recognize an act of congress that it considers unconstitutional
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Samuel Slater
Definition
established the first textile factory in America
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Francis Cabot Lowell
Definition
built a weaving factory with power machinery
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Eli Whitney
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Inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts
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Samuel F B Morse
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built an electromagnetic telegraph that taps a code through a long metal wire
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Henry Clay
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proposed the American System
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John Quincy Adams
Definition
6th president
formulated Monroe Doctrine
served in the house of representatives after presidency
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Andrew Jackson
Definition
7th president
opposed Bank of America
objected the rights of individual states
increased presidential powers
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Martin Van Buren
Definition
8th president
powerful democrat
served as secutary of state and vice president under Andrew Jackson
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John C. Calhoun
Definition
spokesman for slavery, nullification, and the rights of southern states
7th vice president
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Whig
Definition
a political party that supports war against Britain, high tariffs, and loose constructionists.
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