Taco
What term is used to describe the economic changes of the late 1700s, when manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work?
Industrial Revolution
Who was the builder that made Americas first successful steam powered locomotive
Peter Cooper
What is the idea called of widening political power to more of the people?
Jacksonian democracy
The harsh journey of the cherokee to the Indian Territory called?
Trail of Tears
Member of a church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830
Mormon
What is the name of the person who was the first to build a textile mill in America?
Samuel Slater
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel F. B. Morse
What is the practice of giving government jobs to political backers called?
Spoils system
A political party formed by Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and other Jackson opponents called
Whig party
Who founded a colony for Americans in Spanish Texas
Stephen F. Austin
What is the method called for a production using many workers and machines in one building?
Factory System
What was the name of the machine that made cleaning cotton seeds out of cotton faster called?
Cotton Gin
what 1828 law that significantly raised tariffs on raw materials and manufactured goods called?
Tariff of Abominations
What was the event called when there was widespread fear about the state of the economy that spread after Van Buren took office?
panic of 1837
Name of the Mexican president who lead an army against Texas?
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
what were the textile mills in Lowell Massachusetts called?
Lowell mills
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Idea that a state had the right to nullify or reject a federal law that it considers unconstitutional
Doctrine of nullification
Name of the legendary trapper who explored the west and opened up the fur trade?
Jim Beckwourth
Nickname of the republic of Texas once free from Mexico?
Lone Star Republic
Who was the inventor of Americas first widely successful steamboat?
Robert Fulton
Who lead a slave rebellion in Virginia 1831
Nat Turner
Name of the brilliant Cherokee who invented a writing system for the Cherokee language
Sequoya
Trail that began in missouri and ended in Santa Fe, New Mexico called?
Santa Fe Trail
What was the belief called that the US was meant to expand from coast to coast?
Manifest Destiny