An American inventor that is best known for inventing the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
An American advocate
Dorothea Dix
Parts that are, for practical purposes, identical
Interchangeable Parts
Defined the scope of the U.S. Congress's legislative power and how it relates to the powers of American state legislatures
McCulloch v.s Maryland
The practice of marrying multiple spouses
Polygamy
American attorney and statesman
Henry Clay
American abolitionist, writer, and member of the women's suffrage movement
Sara Grimke
A machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds
Cotton Gin
A landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation
Gibbons v.s Ogden
The first women's rights convention
Seneca Falls Convention
American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president
Andrew Jackson
American political activist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement
Angelina Grimke
A point-to-point text messaging system, used in the 1840
Telegraph
A practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government civil service jobs to its supporters, friends, and relatives as a reward
Spoils System
A political party active in the middle of the 19th century
Whig Party
American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer
William Lloyd Garrison
U.S. Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer
Lucretia Mott
A rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train
Locomotive
The third protective tariff implemented by the government
Tariff of Abominations
A prevailing value system among the upper and middle classes during the 19th Century in the United States and the United Kingdom
Cult of Domesticity
American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman
Frederick Douglas
American poet and writer from Pennsylvania and Michigan
Elizabeth Margaret Chandler
A heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid
Steam Engine
Passed by Congress with an explicit function of protecting U.S. manufactured items from overseas competition
Tariff of 1816
A social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages
Temperance Movement