His025 Test #2 Flashcards
John Quincy Adams
statesman, politician, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist, the sixth president of the United States, the eighth United States secretary of state
Adams-Onis Treaty
was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico.
Monroe Doctrine
A United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere.
Missouri Compromise
a federal legislation of the United States that balanced desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it
Panic of 1819
the first widespread and durable financial crisis in the United States that slowed westward expansion in the Cotton Belt and was followed by a general collapse of the American economy
Andrew Jackson
an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States, he gained fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress
National Republicans/Whigs
Anti-Masons, disaffected Jacksonians and people whose last political activity had been with the Federalists a decade before
Democrats
Democratic Party was the party of the “common man”. It opposed the abolition of slavery.
Henry Clay
American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. He was the seventh House speaker as well as the ninth secretary of state.
John C. Calhoun
an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States, defended American slavery and sought to protect the interests of white Southerners.
Nullification
is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal laws which they deem unconstitutional with respect to the United States Constitution
Trail of Tears
the forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the “Five Civilized Tribes” between 1830 and 1850
Robert Fulton
inventor who is widely credited with developing the world’s first commercially successful steamboat,
Erie Canal
the canal was the first navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes,
John Deere
developed the first commercially successful, self-scouring steel plow in 1837
Cyrus McCormack
invented the mechanical reaper,
Cotton Gin
a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, and was created by Eli Whitney
Interchangeable parts
parts that are identical for practical purposes. They are made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any assembly of the same type.
Who Invented interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney
Sweat Industries
poverty-level wages, excessive hours of labour, and unsafe or unhealthful workplace conditions.
Commonwealth v. Hunt
was a case in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on the subject of labor unions.
Horace Mann
He spearheaded the Common School Movement, ensuring that every child could receive a basic education funded by local taxes
Abolition
is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world.
William Lloyd Garrison
as an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator
Grimke Sisters
Sarah Moore Grimké and Angelina Emily Grimké, were the first nationally-known white American female advocates of the abolition of slavery and women’s rights.
Frederick Douglass
After escaping from slavery in Maryland, became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, during which he gained fame for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
