manifest destiny the belief that the u.s. would...
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Abolitionist
Civil Disobedience
Idea the people have a right to disobey laws they consider to be
unjust if their consciences demand it
Reform Changing something for the
better
The right to vote
Immigration
The act of entering another country in order to
settle and live there
Process of a population’s shifting
from farms to cities
Transcendentalism Idea that the most important truths in life transcended, or went beyond, human reason
Interchangeable Parts
Identical, machine-made parts for a tool or instrument
Internal Improvements
Improvements made inside
the U.S. (transportation)
Andrew Jackson “Representative of the Common Man”
War Hero, 1st Western President
Jackson's plan to reward
supporters with Government
jobs.
Spoils System
The belief that the U.S. would spread from the
Atlantic to the Pacific.
TARIFF = TAX
Manufacture
Taking Raw Materials and Making
them into Finished Products Ex: Cotton into yarn
1803
Jefferson buys Louisiana from
the French
Machine used to separate cotton seeds from fibers- Eli Whitney
Cotton Gin
Industrial Revolution
A change from handmade products to machine made
products
Mexican War
War between Mexico and the US, Caused
by the Annexation of Texas
Mexican Cession
Land Given up by Mexico
after the Mexican War.
Included CA, CO, UT, NM, AZ
John C. Calhoun
President Jackson’s V.P. who
wanted to Nullify a tariff law