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Robert fulton

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Designed worlds first steamboat

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Steamboat

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Seagoing vessel from a steam powered engine

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Erie canal

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Waterway connecting Hudson r with lake erie

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Eli Whitney

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Cotton gin, interchangeable parts

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Cotton gin

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Separates cotton seeds

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Mechanics

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Machines

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Market revolution

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Theory that us shifted from traditional to modern free market

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Middle class

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Composed of business and professional people, bureaucrats

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Division of labor

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Separation of a work process into a number of tasks so it can specialized

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Industrial revolution

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Transition from creating goods by hand to machines

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Mills girls

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Young yankee women who worked in factories

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Unions

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Association of workers in a particular trade

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Nativism

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Beliefs favoring the interests of est. inhabitants against immigrants

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Gibbons v. Ogden

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Commerce clause, states can’t interfere w/ power of congress to regulate commerce

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Commonwealth v. Hunt

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Est. legality of labor unions and the legality of union workers striking if an employer hired non union workers

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Nativist movement

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Viewed immigrants as unable to become Americans

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Manifest destiny

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Americans have a God given right to conquer

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Transcendentalists

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Each person has direct communication with God

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Led the transcendentalists movement

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Henry David Thoreau

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Started civil disobedience, refused to pay toll tax

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Second great awakening

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Protestant revival movement, improve society (lifestyles)

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Individualism

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Coined by Alexis de tocqueville, belief in freedom

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Self made man

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Men who rose up to wealth from humble origins

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Cult of domesticity

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Emphasized femininity and woman’s role n the household

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Franchise
The right to vote
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American system
A govt sponsored program to harmonize and balance the natio s agriculture, commerce, and industry
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Henry clay
Senator from Kentucky, created the Missouri compromise (great pacificator, compromiser)
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Tariff of 1816
1st protective tariff, encourage Americans to buy goods made in us
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Second bank of the United states
Held federal tax receipts and regulated money
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Panic of 1819
Financial panic, unemployment, agricultural halved
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Mcculloch v. Maryland
Inferior status of state laws in relation to federal laws
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Era of good feelings
Collapse of federalist party
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Missouri compromise
Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non slave state
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Monroe doctrine
Further colonization by Europe in the western hemisphere would b considered a hostile act
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Martin van Buren
8th president, passed the divorce bill
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Spoils system
Gave govt jobs to political supporters regardless of qualifications
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John c. Calhoun
V prez under Jackson, defended slavery
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Tariff of abominations
Raised costs of imported goods to support growing domestic industries
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Nullification crisis
South Carolina wanted to declare null and void because of tariffs
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Indian removal act
Removed all Indians east of the Mississippi to another territory
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Worcester v. Georgia
Court invalidated Georgia laws that regulated us citizens access to Cherokee country
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Trail of tears
Cherokee Indians were forced to travel from north Carolina and Georgia to Oklahoma
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Bank war
Battle between Jackson and supporters of bus
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Whig party
Party oppose of Jackson and democrats
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Panic of 1837
Caused by falling demand of cotton
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The peculiar institution
Reference to slavery
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Upper south
Region of tobacco, vegetable hemp, wheat growers
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Lower south
Cotton most dominant
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King cotton
Term used by Southern authors
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Fugitive slaves
Runaway slaves
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Underground railroad
Network that helped runaway slaves escape
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Harriet tubman
Conductor who helped slaves escaped
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The amistad
Spanish slave ship seized by slaves
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Nat turners rebellion
Unsuccessful attempt to overthrow planter families
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Brook farm
Utopian experiment, prepare a society of liberal people
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Temperance
Combat drinking problems of men
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Common schools
Tax supported public state schools, public education
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American colonization society
Attempted to start a colony in West Africa where free blacks could return back home
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Abolitionism
Movement in opposition to slavery
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William Lloyd garrison
Creator of the liberator and founder of thr American antislavery society
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The liberator
First antislavery newspaper
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American anti slavery society
Organization that advocated the immediate abolition of slavery
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Uncle Tom's cabin
Novel written by beecher, portrayed slave life in the south
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Dorothea dix
Treated the insane
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Organized the 1st convention on women's rights, declaration of sentiments
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Seneca falls convention
Discussion of rights and conditions of women
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Women suffrage
The right to vote for women
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Fifty four forty or fight
Us ought to claim all the territory up to 54 degrees and 40 mins north parallel or fight Gb for the land
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Mexican American war
Conflict between Mexico and America
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Gadsden purchase
10 million for land south of the gila River
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Mexican cession
Land that mexico gave to us
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Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo
Peace Treaty between us and mexico that ended the Mexican American war
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Gold rush
Mass immigration to California in search of gold
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Oregon trail
Overland route to western us
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Wilmot proviso
Unsuccessful addition to a bill, complete ban of slavery
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Free soil party
To support the Wilmot proviso
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Compromise of 1850
California wanted to be a free state, caused tension
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Fugitive slave act
Crime to help slaves
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Stephan a. Douglas
Made the Kansas Nebraska act
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Popular sovereignty
People of the territory should determine themselves the status of slavery within their territory
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Kansas Nebraska act
Allowed popular sovereignty
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Republican party
Northern us
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Bleeding kansas
Violent conflict in Kansas because of slavery
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Charles sumner
Got beaten in the head by brooks
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Roger taney
Jurist, slaves weren't citizens
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
Since slaves are property they can't be granted freedom when moved to a free state
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Lincoln Douglas debates
Focused on slavery topics
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John brown
Gave land to fugitive slaves
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Election of 1860
Lincoln won on a four way contest

History Vocab Words (2 decks)

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