Vocabulary 1
area bordering on a nation that has not yet become part of that nation
What is a Territory?
elected as the “common man’s” President
Who was Andrew Jackson?
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
goods or merchandise carried in a ship
What is cargo?
a flat-bottomed boat used to transport goods on inland waterways
What is a barge?
a piece of paper that tells who owns a piece of land
What is a deed?
invented the steamboat
Who was Robert Fulton?
the ruler of France
Who was Napolean?
taking people for a nation’s armed forces without their permission
What was impressment?
the manufacture of goods for sale
What is industry?
pieces of land set aside by the government where the Native Americans had to live
What is a reservation?
wrote our national anthem
Who was Francis Scott Key?
Sent by President Jefferson to explore the land west of the Mississippi River
Who were Lewis and Clark?
the refusal of one nation to sell good to another for political reasons
What was embargo?
Began because of British impressment of American sailors
What was the War of 1812?
the United States national anthem
What was the Star Spangled Banner?
Native American leader who wanted to bring all tribes together
who was Tecumseh?
explored the Mississippi River and the southwest
Who was Zebulon Pike?
a period in history in which machinery took over the place of hand tools
What was the Industrial Revolution?
Forced Native Americans to leave their land and move to reservations in Oklahoma.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
a group of men in Congress who wanted war with England
Who were War Hawks?
a Native American who was hired by Lewis and Clark to guide them
Who was Sacajawea?
invented the cotton gin
Who was Eli Whitney?
man-made “rivers” used to move goods and for quicker travel
What is a canal?
Doubled the size of the US
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
Started in Tennessee
What was the Trail of Tears?
Life in ______________
textile factories
large cities
wool mills
What was life like in the Northeast?
Life in the ____________________
land cheap
rough life/hardship
lived in cabins
What was life like in the NORTHWEST?
Life in the _________________
Plantations
slavery
produced cotton
What was life like in the South?
Helped connect the Great Lakes to NYC
What was the Erie Canal?