Vocabulary
To refuse a bill.
Veto
Compared slavery to a wolf.
Thomas Jefferson
A community that is outside the city and has towns that are smaller cities.
Rural
What year did the War of 1812 begin.
1812
Grew crops on their farms and plantations.
South
A statement of rules that Congress wants to become law.
Bill
Wrote the poem that became America's national anthem.
Francis Scott Key
Government leaders in New York built this canal to make water transportation easier.
Erie Canal
The British burnt down this city because it was the capitol of the United States.
Washington D.C.
This material came from the south.
Cotton
The term for a change that is made to the Constitution.
Amendment
Helped write the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and encouraged people to accept them.
James Madison
This invention was made to make traveling across the U.S. easier and quicker.
Trains/railroads
A plan that said European nations should not form new colonies in the Americas.
Monroe Doctrine
Focused on shipping and manufacturing.
North
A manmade waterway that connects two bodies of water.
Canal
Dolly Madison
This invention was made to make traveling on rivers easier and quicker.
Steamboat
One reason America went to war with Great Britain in 1812 was that the British supplied weapons to these people.
Indians
The Northerners wanted these high.
Tariffs
American System
War general who won the Battle of New Orleans (on the $20 bill).
Andrew Jackson
Other than trading goods, another important industry to the north was this.
Whaling
One result of the War of 1812 peace treaty was that European countries began to respect America as a truly what.
Independent Nation
The Missouri Compromise settled problems related to states and this.
Slavery