Vocabulary #1
A device that uses wires & electricity to send & receive messages
What is a telegraph?
The use of knowledge to invent new devices & tools
What is technology?
19th-century political philosophy that wanted greater democracy for the common man
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
Term used to describe state banks that received deposits of federal funds during Andrew Jackson’s presidency
What is a pet bank?
A person who belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints
Who is a mormon?
Being more concerned with interests of a group of people or region instead the whole country
What is Sectionalism?
Woven or knitted cloth
What is textile?
Practice of giving government jobs to people based on political or personal connections instead of experience
What is the spoils system?
Route taken by settlers from the east to the west coast of the U.S.
What is the Oregon Trail?
A religious Spanish community with the intent to convert natives to catholocism
What is a mission?
To make something from raw materials
What is to manufacture?
Flat-bottomed boat used to carry heavy loads
What is a barge?
Individual states have the right to pass and enforce laws independently and with little interference by the federal government
What is states' rights?
Belief that the U.S. was destined by God to expand across North America
What is Manifest Destiny?
1848 to 1855 when a huge increase in migration to California happened because of the discovery of gold
What is the gold rush?
A government tax on imports
What is a tariff?
Formal message asking for something & people sign it to show their agreement
What is petition?
To refuse to enforce something
What is to nullify?
Addition of territories by the United States across North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
What is westward expansion?
The lands ceded by Mexico to the U.S. at the end of the Mexican-American War
What is the Mexican Cession?
Economic policies during the early 1800s; purpose was to unite the U.S. economic systems so the country would be able to support itself
What is the American System?
When an economy moves From agrarian to being based on the production of goods by using machines and factories
What is industrialization?
A vote that blocks a decision
What is veto?
An economic system in which resources and the means of production are privately owned and prices, production, and the distribution of goods are determined by competition in a free market
What is capitalism?
The act of a person moving to a country where he/she was not born to live
What is immigration?