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When the British captured American soldiers and forced them to fight for the British military.
What is impressment?
New England’s economy depended on these 2 things.
What is shipping and foreign trade?
Expressed the belief that the United States was ordained to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican and Native American territory.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The period when people increasingly bought and sold goods rather than make them for themselves.
What is the Market Revolution?
The movement to end slavery in America was called.
What is abolition?
the ability of the Supreme Court to declare a law or an act of Congress, unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
When William Henry Harrison died a month after being elected President in 1840, this person replaced him as President
Who is John Tyler?
This group migrated westward along the Oregon Trail to escape persecution, and ended up in what would be Salt Lake City, Utah.
Who are the Mormons?
A New England artist, patented the telegraph, which sent messages in code over a wire in a matter of seconds.
Who is Samuel F. B. Morse?
They led the rebellion in 1831 that ended with 60 whites killed and the perpetrators executed.
Who is Nat Turner?
They should not attempt to create new colonies or try to overthrow the newly independent republics in the hemisphere. At the same time, the United States would not involve itself in European affairs or interfere with existing colonies in the Western Hemisphere.
Under these agreements, Maine was admitted as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The rebels’ commander in chief and 900 soldiers surprised a group of Mexicans near the San Jacinto River. With shouts of “Remember the Alamo!” the Texans killed 630 of Santa Anna’s soldiers in 18 minutes and captured Santa Anna himself.
Who is Sam Houston?
This was the first large full scale textile plant in Massachusetts that helped change the landscape of work, especially for women, in the Northeast.
These 2 women organized the women’s rights conference in Seneca Falls.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?
This doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Who is Eli Whitney?
On February 2, 1848, the United States and Mexico signed this in which Mexico agreed to the Rio Grande as the border between Texas and Mexico and ceded the New Mexico and California territories to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
This was particularly important in moving raw materials such as lead, copper, and heavy machinery.
What is water transport?
What is The Liberator and The North Star?
This called for electors, in the electoral college, to cast separate ballots for president and vice-president.
What is the Twelfth Amendment?
Gave funds to negotiate treaties with Natives that would force them to move west.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
The name given to the people who rushed to California after gold was found near what would become San Francisco.
What is Forty-Niners?
Groups joined together to expand their power. Journeymen’s organizations from several industries united in 1834 to form this.
What is the National Trades' Union?
The philosophy created by Ralph Waldo Emerson.