Chapter 7
A tax imposed by the government on goods imported from another country
What is a tariff?
The art of conducting negotiations with other countries
What is a diplomacy?
The economic change in economies and cultures brought about by the use of machines to do work formerly done by hand
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Unequal treatment based on a person's race, gender, religion, place of birth, or other arbitrary characteristic
What is discrimination?
The practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs
The 1836 rebellion of Texans against Mexican rule that resulted in Texas becoming an independent nation
What is the Texas War for Independence?
A person whose wealth comes from the ownership of industrial businesses and who favors government policies that support industry
Who is an industrialist?
A slave rebellion that took place in Virginia in 1831
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
The idea that the common people should control the government
What is the Jacksonian Democracy?
The belief that it was the US's right and duty to spread across the North American Continent
What is manifest destiny?
A hand-operated machine that cleans seeds and other unwanted material from cotton
What is a cotton gin?
The feeling of being weighed down or held back by severe or unfair force
What is oppression?
The removal of Cherokee Indians from Georgia to Indian Territory in 1838 and 1839
What is the Trail of Tears?
A region of land; also a region designated by Congress and organized under a governor
What is a territory?
A person who favors an agricultural way of life and government policies that support agricultural interests
Who is an agrarian?
The belief that one race is superior to another
What is racism?
Who is a civil servant?
To add a territory to a country
What is annexing?
A large area of privately owned land where crops were grown through the labor of slaves or workers who lived on the land
What is a plantation?
A secret network of free blacks and whites who helped thousands of slaves escape to free states and to Canada
What is the Underground Railroad?