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Martin Van Buren

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Advocated lower tariffs and free trade, and by doing so maintained support of the south for the Democratic party. He succeeded in setting up a system of bonds for the national debt.

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labor union

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An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members

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caucus

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A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform

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Henry Clay

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A northern American politician. He developed the American System as well as negotiated numerous compromises

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cotton gin

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a machine that removed seeds from cotton fiber

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Tariff of Abominations

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Tariff passed by Congress in 1828 that favored manufacturing in the North and was hated by the South

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Monroe Doctrine

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an American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers

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Spoils System

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A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.

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Indian Removal Act

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a congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River

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John C. Calhoun

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South Carolina Senator - advocate for state's rights, limited government, and nullification

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Whigs

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Political Party led by Henry Clay, Favored the BUS and the American System; strong legislative branch; against King Andrew I

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John Quincy Adams

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Secretary of State, He served as sixth president under Monroe. He drew up the Adams-Onis Treaty in which Spain gave the United States Florida in exchange for the United States dropping its claims to Texas

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Missouri Compromise

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"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.

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Tariff of 1816

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This protective tariff helped American industry by raising the prices of British manufactured goods, which were often cheaper and of higher quality than those produced in the U.S.

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Jacksonian Democracy

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A policy of spreading more political power to more people. It was a "Common Man" theme.

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Trail of Tears

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The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. They traveled from North Carolina and Georgia through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas-more than 800 miles (1,287 km)-to the Indian Territory. More than 4, 00 Cherokees died of cold, disease, and lack of food during the 116-day journey.

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Francis Cabot Lowell

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American industrialist who developed the Lowell system, a mill system that included looms that could both weave thread and spin cloth. He hired young women to live and work in his mill

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nativists

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Americans who feared that immigrants would take jobs and impose their Roman Catholic beliefs on society

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American System

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Economic program advanced by Henry Clay that included support for a national bank, high tariffs, and internal improvements; emphasized strong role for federal government in the economy.

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capital

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money for investment

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Adams-Onis Treaty

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Agreement in which Spain gave up all of Florida to the United States

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Erie Canal

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an artificial waterway connecting the Hudson river at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo

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Industrial Revolution

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A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.

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National Road

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The first highway built by the federal government, it stretched from Pennsylvania to Illinois. It was a major overland shipping route and an important connection between the North and the West.

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Samuel Slater

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He memorized the way that the British made machines and he brought the idea to America. He made our first cotton spinning machine.

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Andrew Jackson

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The seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), who as a general in the War of 1812 defeated the British at New Orleans (1815). He opposed the Bank of America, objected to the right of individual states to nullify disagreeable federal laws, and increased the presidential powers.

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Samuel F. B. Morse

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Invented the telegraph and Morse code

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Eli Whitney

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United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin

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turnpike

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an expressway on which tolls are collected

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nullification

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A state's refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional

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