Unit 3 2014
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- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- She was a major figure of early women's rights movement. She helped organize the first women's rights convention, known as the Seneca Falls Convention.
- Sectionalism
- The economic, social, cultural and political differences that exist between different parts of the country.
- Industrial Revolution
- A time during the late 18th and 19th centuries when advances in technology led to massive economic changes.
- Temperance Movement
- Social movement aimed at restricting and eventually banning alcohol.
- Treaty of Ghent
- Treaty that ended the war of 1812
- Louisiana Purchase
- Land purchased by the United States from France that doubled the size of the United States.
- John Deere
- Invented Steel Plow
- Lewis & Clark
- Explorers Jefferson authorized to explore Louisiana Territory for purpose of finding a water route to Pacific Ocean. They provided valuable information about Oregon & Louisiana territory which led to rapid migration of settlers to Pacific Northwest.
- Trail of Tears
- The Cherokees march west to Oklahoma after being forcibly removed from their land in north Georgia and the western Carolina s.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Wrote the declaration of independence and authorized purchase of Louisiana Territory.
- Northwest Ordinance
- Laws that divided the area North of the Ohio River into smaller territories & established guidelines for settlement in the region. Enacted in 1787, it is considered one of the most significant achievements of the Articles of Confederation.
- Francis Scott Key
- United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem later became the Star Spangled Banner.
- Erie Canal
- An artificial waterway that provided a new shipping route from Lake Erie to the Hudson River.
- Infrastructure
- This provides the framework and connections for holding something together such as canals, railroads, and roads.
- War of 1812
- 2nd war between American forces and British forces in North America.
- Eli Whitney
- Invented the cotton gin and introduced the idea of interchangeable parts.
- Noah Webster
- Wrote our dictionary.
- Seneca Falls Convention
- The first women's rights convention.
- Manifest Destiny
- The belief of many US leaders that it was God's sovereign will for the US to expand and possess territory all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
- Monroe Doctrine
- A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere.