Unit 4 Key Terms
1. Era of Good Feelings
2. Hudson River School
3. John Marshall
4. Andrew Jackson
5. Adams-Onis Treaty
6. Monroe Doctrine
7. Henry Clay
8. American System
9. Protective Tariff
10. Samuel Slater
11. John Deere
12. Cyrus McCormick
13. Interchangeable Parts
14. Cotton Gin
15. Industrial Revolution
16. Samuel Morse
17. National Road
18. Robert Fulton
19. Erie Canal
20. Transportation Revolution
21. Antebellum Period
22. Urbanization
23. Lowell Mill System
24. “Cotton Kingdom”
25. Slave Codes
26. Sectionalism
27. Missouri Compromise
28. Election of 1824/”Corrupt Bargain”
29. Democratic Party
30. Whig Party
31. Election of 1828
1. Invented the steel plow, which made large-scale farming possible
2. Political group formed that opposed Andrew Jackson
3. Tightly controlled organization in which workers, mainly single women, worked in factories and lived in housing near the factories
4. A tax on imported goods that guards American businesses from foreign competition
5. Known as the “Father of the Factory System,” he smuggled designs for textile mills from Britain to the United States
6. Invention of Eli Whitney that helped cause the North to become more industrialized
7. Known as the “Great Compromiser,” he proposed the American System and the Missouri Compromise
8. This deal said that all states admitted above the southern border of Missouri would be free and all states below this line would be slave, temporarily easing tension over the expansion of slavery
9. First major east-west highway that helped people settle further west and helped trade grow between the East and West
10. War hero and “common man” who became president in 1828 after losing in 1824
11. Deal in which Spain gave Florida to the United States
12. Foreign policy that declared that European countries could not interfere with North and South America
13. Political group that formed to support Andrew Jackson, splitting from the Democratic-Republicans
14. Invented the steamboat, which increased the speed of trade and transportation on rivers
15. Major canal that connected eastern and western New York, increasing settlement and trade between the two areas
16. Term given to the South because of its economic dependence on cotton and slavery
17. Southern laws meant to suppress slaves and make them easier to control
18. This term describes the growing separation between the political beliefs, economies, and lifestyles of the North and South
19. Incident in which Henry Clay made a deal that “stole” the presidency from Andrew Jackson and gave it to John Quincy Adams
20. Term for the growth in cities, which happened mainly in the North
21. Time period after the War of 1812 characterized by strong nationalism/national pride during James Monroe’s presidency
22. Group of American landscape painters whose work represented nationalism
23. Supreme Court Chief Justice whose rulings represented nationalism and strengthened the power of the federal government over states
24. Proposed economic plan that included a second National Bank, protective tariffs, and internal improvements
25. Increase in roads, canals, and railroads that caused the country to expand westward and increased trade between the North, West, and South
26. Term for the time in the United States before the Civil War
27. Invention of Eli Whitney that led the South to be depend on cotton and expanded slavery
28. Time period characterized by the mechanization of labor and the growth of factory-based manufacturing
29. Event in which Andrew Jackson won the presidency, largely because of the rise of Universal White Male Suffrage, which allowed more “common” people to vote
30. Inventor of the telegraph, which revolutionized communication
31. Invented the mechanical reaper, which made large-scale farming possible