Vocabulary
This type of tariff raised prices on imported goods to protect manufacturers at home.
What is a protective tariff.
This entity, created in 1819, allowed the federal government to print money and control state banks.
What was the Second National Bank?
This canal project linked the Hudson River to Lake Erie.
What was The Erie Canal?
This was the largest cash crop in the American South.
What was Cotton?
This state was admitted as a free state as the same time Missouri was admitted as a slave state.
What is Maine?
This was the name given to ordinary, non-plantation owning farmers in the South.
Who were Yeoman Farmers?
This form of economic system, allows individuals to invest as they see fit with little or no government regulation or influence.
What is the free market system?
This case allowed the Supreme Court to ultimately decide all cases involving federal statutes and treaties.
What was 'Martin v. Hunter's Lessee' (1816)?
This man designed the steamboat Clermont.
Who was Robert Fulton?
In 1808, Congress outlawed this practice.
What was the foreign slave trade?
This term describes politicians who have the support of leaders from their own state and region.
What are "Favorite Sons?"
This ex-slave was the first African American to hold high office in the Federal government.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
This type of organization bands workers together for better benefits, working conditions and higher wages.
What is a labor union?
The name for the turnpike built from Maryland to Illinois.
What was the National Road?
This was the name of the first passenger engine to run in the U.S.
What was the Tom Thumb?
In 1850, 37% of the South's population were this.
What were slaves?
This man won the Presidential Election of 1828
Who was Andrew Jackson?
With the growth of rail systems in the early U.S., demand for this resource grew exponentially.
What was coal?
A machine that quickly and efficiently combed the seeds out of boils of cotton.
What was the Cotton Gin?
This case in 1819, established the idea that the National Government had the power to create a national bank under the "Necessary and Proper Clause" of the Constitution.
Was was McCullough v. Maryland (1819)?
This man opened a series of textile mills in the NE part of the U.S.
Who was Francis Lowell?
This system forced slaves to work in groups from sunup to sundown.
What was the "Gang System?"
This was the name of the territory that was opened up to slavery under the Missouri Compromise.
What was the Arkansas Territory?
This type of tariff provided money for the federal government.
What was a revenue tariff?
A name for political argument based on attacking another person's character and morals.
What is mudslinging?
This native-American word means 'runaway.'
What is "Seminole"?
This concept allowed guns to be mass-manufactured in early factories.
What were interchangeable parts?
This man organized a failed slave revolt in Richmond Virginia in 1800.
Who was Gabriel Prosser?
This was the candidate who threw his support behind John Quincy Adams during the House selection for President in 1824.
Who was Henry Clay?
This treaty between Spain and the United States gave the U.S. the future state of Florida.
What was the Treaty of Adams-Onis (1819)?
This was the name given to the long-term American policy of trying to prevent European powers from interfering with Latin American political affairs.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?