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- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Had plan for empires in Europe and the Americas.
- Transcendentalist
- any of a group of New England writers who stressed the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material thins, and the importance of the individual con-science
- Technology
- the application of scientific discoveris to practial use
- Brigham Young
- took over as head of the Mormons
- Impressments
- forcing people into servece, as in the navy
- Slum
- poor, crowded and run-down urban neighborhoods
- From whom did we purchise the Lousiana territory from
- France
- Which job made a good profit during the Gold Rush
- Fourity niners and gold miners
- inflation
- a continuous rise in the price of goods & services
- Judicial Review
- the right of the Supreme Curt to determine if a law violates the Constiution
- President Jaskson was known as the
- Common Man
- Sojourner Truth
- she had never been taught to read and write but she spoke with the toung of a rich man
- Famine
- an extreme shortage of food
- Yeoman
- Southern owner of a small farm who did not have slaves
- Secede
- to leave or withdraw
- Implied powers
- powers not specifically defined in the Constitution
- whitch treaty set the official boundary between Canada and Ameica
- teh Convention of 1818
- Naturalist
- a person who was on neither side of the American Revolution
- how did mountain men make their living
- they made their living by Beaver traping and selling the furrs and being guides through the Noutern Plains
- Rendezvous
- a meeting
- sovereignty
- authority
- Manifest Destiny
- the idea popular in teh US during teh 1800's that the country must expand its boundries to teh Pacific.
- Stephen F. Austin
- recruted 300 American fmilies to settle teh fertile land along the Brazos Riverand the Colorado River Of Texas
- What was the Trail of Tears
- a movement of Native Americans from all over the country to all live in the small state of Oklahoma
- Prejudice
- a person who was against the british in the Anerican Revolution
- Lewis and Clark
- Set out on a mission sponsored by President Jefferson to find out what lies on the other side of the country
- Battle of Plattsburgh
- Secured the the nouthern northern side of teh United States
- Frederick Douglass
- the most widely known African American abolitionist. Taught himself to read and write then ran from slavery.
- Toussaint- Louverture
- teh grandson of an African chiefaand a fiercely determined ex-slave.
- Sufferage
- the right to vote
- Zebulon Pike
- led 2 expeditions between 1805 and 1807, traveling through the upper Mississippi River Valley and into the region that is now Colorado
- why is the Alamo important
- it gave Houstion time to prepare his forces for the battle that won the war
- Treasury Department
- would deal with teh financial problems
- Who suggested the Great Compromise?
- Roger Sherman
- Embargo Act
- cut off all foregin trade for 2 years
- check & balances
- the system in which each branch of government has a check on the other two branches so that no one branch becomes too powerful
- Mudslinging
- attempt to ruin an opponent's reputation with insults
- where did the Trail f tears Begin and end
- in began in Georiga and ended in Oklahoma
- depression
- a period of low economic activity and widespread unemployment
- Tecumseh
- built a confederacy among Native American nations in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan
- Bill of Rights
- Amendments to the US Constitution that protect basic liberties and rights of each citizen; the first 10 were ratified in 1791.
- Dorothea Dix
- she discovered that the mentially ill people were kept in prision cells and were treated bad. she help the ill and gave them a better place to be.
- Treaty of Ghent
- Ended the War of 1812
- National debt
- the amount the nation's government owed
- most gils in the 180's were taught
- how to be a mother and how to use all the utencials in houses
- bicameral legistature
- consisting of two houses, or chambers, especially in a legislature
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- she was the first female to get a medical degree and the first to graduate at a high caliber school not to menchine she was at the head of her class.
- Joseph Smith
- fouded the Mormon church in 1830 in New York State
- Sacagawea
- a younfg indian who helped Lewis and Clark complete their missoin
- Willam Lioyd Garrison
- stimulated the gowth of the antislavery movement. Worked the country's leading antislavery newspaper in Baltamore
- Wemons Sufferage
- the ability for wemen to vote
- John Marshall
- ruled Maryland
- John Jay
- teamed up with Madison, Hamilton to write a series of essays explaining and defending the Constitution
- the Prophet
- urged Native Americans every where to return to the customs of their acestors.
- Santa Anna
- Became President of Mexico in 1833
- Alexander Hamilton
- A lawyer in New York who in September of 1786 proposed calling a convention in Philadelphia to discuss issues about trade
- What method of transportation United the Midwest and East, but was missing in the South
- Train
- Slave Code
- the laws passed in the Southern states that controlled and restricted enslaved people.
- federal system
- a government that divides powers between the national, or federal, government and the states
- who led the trail of tears
- the trail of tears was led by the federal government
- War Department
- would provide for the nation's defense
- Araon Burr
- Thomas Jefferson's running mate of New York
- Black Hawk
- Sauk Chief, led a force of Sauk and Fox people back to Illinois, their homeland.
- Prohibition
- the forbidding by law of making of selling Alcoholic beverages
- Trade Union
- organization of workers with the same trade or skills
- John Tyler
- a planter from Virgina was harrisons runnng mate
- Henry Clay
- of the Whig party came close to beating Polk in the Elections of 1844
- how did John Tyler become president
- the president in office died and he was the vice president
- Harriet Tubman
- escaped from slavery to become the most famous conductor of the underground railroad
- republic
- a government in which citizens rule through elected representatives
- Joint Occupaton
- the possession and settling of an area shared by two or more countries
- Overseer
- person who supervises a large operation or its workers
- Strike
- a stopping of work by owners to force an employer tomeetdemands.
- State Department
- would handle relations with other contries
- Where did the Industrial Revolution Begin
- Great Britian
- Sam Houston
- commander in chief of the Texas forces
- Caucus
- a meeting held by a political party to choose their party's candidate for president or decide policy
- Sedition
- refers to activities aimed at weakening established govrnment
- Laissez-faire
- policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy
- Davey Crockett
- went to Texas from Tennesee with a band of sharpshooters to fight in the Alamo.
- Osceola
- Seminal Chief
- Nullify
- to cancel or make ineffective
- John Sutter
- owned a vast tract of land about 40 miles from sacramento
- veto
- to reject a bill and prevent it from becoming a law
- Alien
- immigrants living in teh country who were not citizens
- Partisan
- favoring one side of an issue
- John Calhoun
- John Adam's vice president, switched parties to run with Jackson
- monarchy
- a government where the people are ruled by a King or Queen, usually an inherited position
- Eli Whitney
- invented the cotton gin
- Maria Mitchell
- Discovered a comet after she taught herself astrononmy
- spoils system
- practiceof handing out government jobs to supporters; replacing government employees with the winning candidate's supporters
- What was the first state to approve to Constitution?
- Delaware
- Industry
- the change from an agrarion society to one based on industry
- why did so many Americans settle in Oregon
- the state was big eneough that all the cities were not crowded
- where did the Industrial Revolution first begin in America
- New England