People
Wrote the Star Spangled Banner
Francis Scott Key
Elected as the Common Man’s President and used the spoils system to reward his supporters
Andrew Jackson
A group of young congressmen who encouraged war with Britain
War Hawks
Cherokee’s 800-mile forced march off their homeland
Trail of Tears
Period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production
Industrial Revolution
Known as the Great Compromiser
Henry Clay
16th president who was president during the Civil War and was assassinated
Abraham Lincoln
Agreement that officially ended the Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Gold-seeking migrants who came to California, specifically to San Francisco
Forty-Niners
New leader of Mexico who closed Texas off to American settlers
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
An escaped slave who risked her life to bring other slaves to freedom in the north by using the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
The First Lady during the War of 1812 who saved important papers and George Washington’s portrait from the White House
Dolly Madison
Andrew Jackson’s vetoing the Second National Bank
Causes of the Panic of 1837
Religious group was forced out of New York and settled in Salt Lake City Utah
Mormons
200 Texans defended an abandoned mission in San Antonio against 6,000 Mexican soldiers
Battle of the Alamo
Changed industry with interchangeable parts and the introduction of mass production
Eli Whitney
Andrew Jackson’s informal group of trusted advisors who met in the White House kitchen
Kitchen Cabinet
Rise in patriotism, end of power for Native American groups, and Andrew Jackson became a hero
Results of the War of 1812
The Prophet's brother and he worked to unite the natives and was killed at the Battle of the Thames
Tecumseh
Made getting goods to distant markets much easier and less costly
Steam Engine
Memorized plans for the water frame from Great Britain and snuck them out of the country
Samuel Slater
Accused of making a corrupt bargain with Henry Clay to beat Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
Exclusive statement of American policy warning European powers not to interfere with the Americas
Monroe Doctrine
The fate of Americans to settle land all the way to the Pacific Ocean in order to spread democracy
Manifest Destiny
Invented by Eli Whitney and revived the South’s economy
Cotton Gin