History Unit 3 Vocab
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Mental Map
- A map with the most important features on it
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Geographic Characteristics
- Includes human and physical features
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Human Features
- Any feature made by humans to help mankind
- Physical Features
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Aspects of an area that are created by nature
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Economic Cost
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The negative of an activity
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Economic Benefit
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The positive of an activity
- Oregon Treaty
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The treaty in which the Oregon Country was split between Great Britain and the United States
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Mexican Cession
- The region in the Southwest of the United States that was given up by Mexico after the Mexican War
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Manifest Destiny
- The belief that the United States was destined to stretch across the continent spreading democracy and Christianity
- Monroe Doctrine
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A policy of United States opposition to any European interface in the Western Hemisphere
- Missouri Compromise
- A series of laws enacted to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states
- Henry Clay
- He is called the Great Compromiser and was responsible for the American System; He was considered one of the greatest United States senators
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Indian Removal Act
- This act called for the government to negotiate treaties that would require the Native Americans to relocate West.
- Cherokee
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A group of 16000 that was forced to move to the Indian Territory (Present day Oklahoma)
- Assimilation
- To become part of something
- Ceded
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To give something up
- Market Economy
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When prices and wages are set by supply and demand
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Private Ownership
- Being owned by someone, but not the government
- Competition
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Trying to beat others
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Limited Government
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Restrictions on how much power the government can have
- Growth
- The process of becoming large
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Push and Pull Factors
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Factors which push people out of their native lands and pull them to a new place
- Migration
- Movement
- Territorial Expansion
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Growth in amount of land
- Data
- Information
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Electoral College
- A system used by the United States to select a president
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Popular Vote
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The vote of the majority of the people
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Universal Male Suffrage
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The right for all men to vote
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Election of 1828
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Andrew Jackson defeats John Quincy Adams, and becomes president
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Jacksonian Democracy
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Era of the common man
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Spoils System
- The process of giving government positions to political supporters
- Veto
- To reject
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National Bank
- The place where government money was kept and it issued paper money (Created by Alexander Hamilton)
- Nullification
- To make something invalid
- Tariff
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A tax on imports
- Canal
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An artificial waterway the connects bodies of water
- Steamboat
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A boat with an engine powered by steam that allowed travel upstream
- Market
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A gathering of items to be sold
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Cash Crop
- A crop farmed for the sole purpose of making money
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Cotton Gin
- An invention that sped up cotton production
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Slave-Based Economy
- The South was dependent on slaves to prosper
- Plantation
- A place with land, slaves, and cash crops
- Immigration
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The arrival of settlers to a new country
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Social Reform Movement
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It improved society and groups of people, and started the idea of a utopia
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The Second Great Awakening
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A revival of religious faith