People
illegal slave trader, co-leader of Cannon-Johnson Gang
Patty Cannon
Shot and killed by pro slavery mob, Presbyterian minister
Elijah Lovejoy
economic plan had important role in American Policy
American System
belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
argues drastic change of the economy, Charles Grier Seller
Market Revolution
escaped MD slavery, anti-slavery writings
Frederick Douglas
Womens rights activist, born into slavery, first woman to win such a case against a white man
Sojourner Truth
Completed in 1825 being the second largest canal in the world
Erie Canal
nativist political party, anti intellectualism, xenophobia
Know-nothings
sociocultural group, first classified as a social caste in Antebellum South
Poor Southern Whites
bind republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals
John C. Calhoun
American Inventor, founded McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
Cyrus McCormick
US presidential election of 1824, Compromise of 1877, Gerald Ford's 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon
Corrupt Bargain
first major legislative departure from the US
Indian Removal Act
principal of US policy, President James Monroe
Monroe Doctrine
French Aristocrat, Democracy in America and The Old Regime
Alexis de Tocqueville
The Liberator 1831, abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, social reformer
William Lloyd Garrison
quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds.."cotton engine"
Cotton Gin
rapid development of industry, occured in Britain, transition to new manufacturing processes
Industrial Revolution
admitted Maine to the united states as a free state, Missouri as a slave state
Missouri Compromise
Led a slave rebellion, south hampton county VA, Ben Turners plantation
Nat Turner
rescued 70 enslaved people, underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
system of manufacturing, system arose in course of Industrial Revolution
Factory System
textile mills, named after Francis Lowell
Lowell Factories
vote with one office for one party and another office for a different party
Party Machines