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US History Unit 2
Expansion & Reform
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History
12th Grade
02/07/2011

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Term
Cotton Gin 
Definition
invented in 1793, spread in early 1800s, the cotton gin is a machine separating cotton from its seed. invented by Eli Whitney. Cleaned cotton faster. 
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Cotton Kingdom
Definition
The Cotton Kingdom is a cotton-producing region of the southern US up until the civil war. 
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Plantation System 
Definition
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John Deere
Definition

  1. John Deere                                               
  2. 1868                                                  
  3. he founded the company for manufacturing steel plows.  
  4. It is a successful company today. 

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Cyrus McCormick 
Definition

  1. Cyrus Hall McCormick 
  2. 1834
  3. His patented reaper was the cornerstone. 
  4. Harvesting machinery company, and the innovative deferred-payment plans and guarantees that he offered customers became a model in U.S. consumerism. 

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Industrial Revolution
Definition

  1. the British 
  2. late 18th and 19th centuries
  3. The rapid development of industry that occurred in Britain, brought about by the introduction of machinery. 
  4. It was characterized by the use of steam power, the growth of factories, and mass production.  

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Factory System 
Definition

  • Samuel Slater, Northerners, lower classes, and immigrants.
  • l
  • brought the British factory design to the US, and the North became dependent on the factory system. 

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Interchangeable Parts
Definition

 

  • Eli Whitney
  • Whitney introduced the idea of interchangeable parts.

 

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Nativism 
Definition

1) newcomers, immigrants, and native born. 

2) 

3) native-born

4) the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against immigrants. 

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Nationalism
Definition

  1. Federalist Party, politicians, Democratic-Republicans. 
  2. 1812
  3. The war of 1812. 
  4. the federalist party collapsed, politicians changed political party to Democratic-Republicans. 
  5. Democratic-Republicians adopted Henry Clay's American system. Adams-Onis Treaty 1819, Monroe Doctrine 1823. Nicknamed "era of good feelings."

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American System
Definition

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Sectionalism
Definition

  1. Northern Business, 

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Erie Canal 
Definition

  • DeWitt Clinton
  • 1825
  • key that unlocked an enormous series of social and economic changes in the young nation.
  • shipping prices were cut and towns and cities sprung up along the canal making the area more populated.
  • parts have been perserved, part have been filled with roads and streets


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Robert Fulton

 

Definition

  • 1765-1824
  • american engineer and inventor created the first successful steamboat. 

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Samuel Morse

 

Definition

  • 1791-1872
  • helped invent single-wire telegraph, helped invent the morse code.

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Dorothea Dix

 

Definition

 

  • She visited the mentally insane people 
  • she has a hospital named after her. 
  • she said "we need better treatment for the mentally ill" 
  • 1802-1887

 

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Hudson River School 
Definition

 

  • mid-19th century American art movement by a group of landscapepainters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism.
  • the paintings were from the hudson river valley

 

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Edgar Allan Poe
Definition

  • developed american history 

Term

Democrats 

 

Definition

  • the election of 1828
  • between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams. 

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Henry David Thoreau 
Definition

  • Went to jail for not paying taxes
  • Refused to pay taxes because of the Mexican War. 
  • he was a transcendentalist 
  • inspired gandhi & martin luther king jr. 
  • said, if the law is unjust, disobey it to bring awareness of the injustice. 

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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Definition

  • Wrote Scarlet Letter
  • said, the more we create society and laws, the further away we get from truth and justice. 
  • said, evil and sin are part of human nature. 

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Washington Irving 
Definition

  • First American author to actually gain fame and sell a lot of books. 
  • Wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" & "Rip van Winkle" 
  • loved christmas celebrations

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James Fenimore Cooper 
Definition

  • Popular american writer of tales of the West
  • wrote, "the last of the Mohicans" and "the Leather stocking tales. 

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Horace Mann 

 

Definition

  • increasing public education
  • helped poor people get an education

Term
Seneca Falls Convention
Definition
Term
Election of 1824
Definition

  • John Quincy Adams was the sone of former Federalist president 
  • Jackson protested was a corrupt bargain 
  • new tariff was signed into law in 1828, Tariff of Abominations. 

Term

Jacksonian Democracy 

 

Definition

  • Andrew Jackson was the first man from poverty to be elected president 
  • appointed friends and his supporters to high positions of government. 
  • supporters became democrats. 

Term
Nullification Crisis 
Definition

  • began to organize against tariffs. 
  • John C. Calhoun published the Exposition and Protest. 
  • saying that states cold refuse to enforce unconstitutional laws. 
  • 1832- SC threatening to secede if tariffs were not repealed. 
  • called in federal troops to enforce laws. compromise was reached. 

Term

Bank War

&

Pet Banks

 

Definition

 

  • jackson thought that all the national bank only wanted to aid the rich and powerful.
  • removed treasury funds to be removed from the US bank and put in pet banks.
  • chaos started to happen which lead to the Panic of 1837.

 

Term

Worchester

v. 

Georgia 

Definition

  • abolished tribal rule 
  • claimed cherokee lands
  • states could not interfere with federal indian treaties. 
  • President Jackson said, john marshall has made his decision not let him enforce it. 

Term

Indian Removal

Act

 

Definition

  • was at jackson's speech 1829.
  • passed april 24, 1830.

Term

Missouri Compromise of

1820

Definition

 

  • pro-slavery and anti-slavery fractions. 
  • 1820
  • Prohibited slavery in louisiana territory from the north. within boundaries of the state of missouri. 


Term

Texas Annexation 

 

Definition

  • Sam Houston, Republic of Texas, Mexican Government. 
  • Election o f1844. 
  • Sam Houston's army won against Santa Anna in the Texas War.
  • whether the US should annex Texas or not. 

Term

Mexican-American 

War

Definition

 

  • James K. Polk, northerns, southerns. 
  • 1848
  • mexico considered annexation a declaration of war. US and its military skill defeated Mexico in 1848. 

 

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