Vocab lesson 1&2
What is the term for a tax on imports for the purpose of raising money?
What is Revenue Tariff?
What is the term for a work stoppage by workers to force an employer to meet their demands?
What is a Strike?
What is the term for an improper or unlawful agreement between politicians?
What is a corrupt bargain?
What African American man born into slavery escaped and changed his name and eventually became the first African American to hold high office in the US government?
What was Fredrick Douglass?
By the start of the civil War, how many freed African Americans lived in the South?
250,000
What is the term for a tax on imports designed to protect American manufacturers?
What is a Protective Tariff?
What is a machine that removes cotton seeds from cotton fiber called?
What is a Cotton Gin?
What is the term for an attempt to ruin an opponents reputation with insults?
What is mudslinging?
Who invented the Cotton Gin?
Who was Eli Whitney?
What was the nations largest city in the 1820's with a large financial district, factories and a booming economy?
What is New York City?
What is a market economy in which privately owned businesses have the freedom to operate for a profit with limited government intervention called?
What is a Free Enterprise System?
What is a person who own and cultivates a small farm called?
What is a Yeoman Farmer?
What senator from Kentucky is responsible for getting the Missouri Compromise voted through the house and senate?
Who was Henry Clay?
Who invented the telegraph as well as a code for sending messages?
Who was Samuel Morse?
What invention offered faster, cheaper and more efficient ways to move goods through rivers and waterways?
What is the Steam Boat?
What is the term for uniform pieces that can be made in large quantities to replace other identical pieces?
What are Interchangeable Part?
What is the method or organizing enslaved labor in which workers were given a specific set of jobs to accomplish every day, after which they were allowed to spend their time as they chose called?
What is the Task System?
When John Quincy Adams won the presidency with a vote in the House he offered what powerful position to Henry Clay?
What is secretary of State?
What president is the only president in history to lose the popular vote and the electoral votes and still become president?
Who was John Quincy Adams?
What invention helped move goods across land and boosted industry in the US?
What is the "Iron Horse" or Locomotive?
What is an organization of workers formed for the purpose of advancing its members' interests called?
What is a labor union?
What were politicians who enjoyed the support of leaders from their own state a region called?
What were Favorite Sons?
The election of _____ was the first time candidates really had to campaign hard against each other and mudslinging was used by both sides to try an convince people to not vote for their opponents.
What is 1828?
Who won the popular vote and the electoral college votes, but did not have enough electoral votes to become president and eventually lost the election?
Who was Andrew Jackson?
What crop played the greatest role in the economy of the South?
What is Cotton?