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- federalism
- political system in which authority is shared between a central govt. and state
- Plains Indians
- food tools followed buffalo, Sioux was most aggresive
- nativist
- a native-born American who wanted to eliminate foreign influence
- Primary source
- acoount of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed an event ex letter written by George Washington
- George Washington
- 1st President of the United States genertal of patriots
- Oregon Trail
- A route followed by wagon trains from Independence, Missouri to Oregon.
- Monroe Doctrine
- President Monroes policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers
- Walt Whitman
- poet from Long Island
- commonwealth
- community works together for the common good of the community
- mexican cession
- Lands sold by Mexico to the US following the Mexican War
- opposition to immigration
- against immigration
- Cotton Gin
- a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers made by Eli Whitney
- caucus
- A private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates.
- Columbian exchange
- people from Europe begain to exchange with people in the new world bad diseases like smallpox
- separation of power
- a form of government in which the executive, legislative, and judicial branches limit and control each other through a system of checks and balances
- Puritans
- Members of a religious group known for its strict beliefs came to America for freedom of religion
- Missouri compromise
- Solves the slave-state free-state problem by admitting Maine and Missouri simultaneously
- prejudice
- when you make judgement of a group of people based on race or religion not how they are as a person
- Thomas Jefferson
- Third president, two terms, Democratic-Republican wrote declartion of independence
- underground railroad
- a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada
- prejudice
- a negative opinion that is not based on facts.
- compromise of 1850
- Series of measures that were intended to settle the disagreements between free states and slave states
- know nothing party
- political party formed to stopo the influence of immigrants
- Andrew Jackson
- President known as the common man and put together the indian removal act
- Santa Anna
- Dictator-general of Mexico
- Christopher Columbus
- an explorer who mistakenly found the Americas mean to natives
- cultures of native americans
- each tribe had different homes based on the geography land they lived
- constitution
- written form of government
- emigrant
- someone who leaves one country to settle in another
- famine
- lack of food in a place; time of starving
- suffrage
- The right to vote.
- protective tariff
- A tax on an imported product instituted to protect american industries.
- Sam Houston
- United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States (1793-1863)
- William Lloyd Garrison
- United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)
- boomtown
- a communtity experiences a sudden growth in buisness or population
- Judicial Review
- the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws and actions of local, state, or national governments unconstitutional
- nativist
- a person who favors those born in his country and is opposed to immigrants
- seneca falls convention
- Women's rights convention that results in a declaration of sentiments but not much else
- John Sutter
- Who was the first person to find gold in California? moved west and tried to farm
- John Rolfe
- Jamestown planter, experimented with tobacco crop in Virginia, married Pocahontas
- House of Burgess
- the lawmaking body in the virgina colony
- Mayflower Compact
- Agreement pilgrtims made to follow for the good of the colony
- Manifest Destiny
- the belief that the U.S. should extend all the way to the pacific ocean
- Santa Fe Trail
- route to santa fe,nm,that was used by traders in the 1800's
- famine
- lack of food in a place; time of starving
- Middle Colonies
- new york/ pennsylvania/ new jersey farming of wheat good lands
- Marbury vs Madison
- first case supreme court heard that established the idea of judicial review, also called the grandfather of case law
- Thomas Jefferson
- wrote declartation of indepedence third president
- Harriet Tubman
- United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)
- forty niner
- a name for aperson who whent to california to look for gold
- domestication
- the practice of raising plants and animals for the use or consumption of humans; includes the choosing of species because of the their traits
- James K Polk
- president during time wanted US to extend to pacific ocean
- New England Colonies
- Connecticut, Massachusets, Rhode Island, New Hampshire good harbors forest
- William Penn
- Quaker leader who founded the colony of Pennsylvania.
- Susan B Anthony
- fought for womens right to vote
- abolitonist
- a person who worked to end slavery
- Brigham Young
- leader of the Mormons who decided to move the group west to Utah had more than one wife
- Dorathea Dix
- helped make hospital better and prisons better
- Battle of the Alamo
- 1836 attack on the Alamo mission in San Antonio by mexican forces during the texas revolution
- standardized parts
- Any parts that are identical and interchangable
- Alexander Hamilton
- secratary of treasury, thaought government should be "big". large cities with manufacturing, leader of federalist party.
- cede
- To give up
- temperance
- the use of little or no alcoholic drink movement to stop producing alcohol
- Sojourner Truth
- former slave who became an abolitionist and women's rights activist
- Harriet Tubman
- abolitionist conductor of underground railroad ex slave
- states rights
- the belief that a state's interests should take precedence over the interests of the national government.
- elizabeth cody stanton
- famous for fighting for women's rights
- Articles of Constitution
- 1st form of US government failed too weak not enough power
- rehabilitation
- repairing or fixing a persons life
- steerage
- a part of a ship for passengers paying the lowest fare.
- annex
- to add to existing country or area
- utopia
- ideally perfect state or community
- Walt Whitman
- poet from Long Island
- Horace Mann
- wanted to start public schools
- potential
- possible, able to happen; something that can develop or become a reality
- strike
- stop work in order to press demands protesting
- ratification of the constitution
- all states needed to approve the consitution to put it into place
- Mexican War
- 1846 to 1848 war with Mexico ending in US victory
- Declaration of Independence
- the document recording and asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain
- Fredrick Douglas
- A slave who told his story wrote the North Star newspaper an abolitionist