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This man invented interchangeable parts and the cotton gin, a device that made processing raw cotton faster and easier. The ability to process more cotton led to an increase in the number of slaves and the size of plantations.

Eli Whitney

This man produced the first steamboat used for transportation of people, the Claremont.

Robert Fulton

Name the man who invented the mechanical reaper used in the harvesting of grain.

Cyrus McCormick

This man pioneered the idea of placing a steel blade on wooden plows to make them more durable and effective.

John Deere

This man invented a new method for processing steel by blowing air through the molten product to remove impurities.

Henry Bessemer

An 1807 law that called for a total ban on trade.

The Embargo Act

An 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska An 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Settlers were given the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery.

The Kansas Nebraska Act

Small area of land purchased from Mexico in 1853 to build a railroad to service the gold fields in California.

The Gadsden Purchase

An agreement over slavery that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave act was passed.

The Compromise of 1850

An agreement proposed by Henry Clay to keep the number of free and slave states equal.

The Missouri Compromise

Idea that it was the destiny of the United States to have all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Manifest Destiny

Practice of rewarding your political supporters with government jobs.

The Spoils System

A group of unofficial advisors to President Andrew Jackson who met with him in the White House Kitchen.

Kitchen Cabinet

Nick name given to people who went to California during the gold rush period.

49’ers

Boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that originally divided the Middle Colonies from the Southern Colonies. It was named for the two men who surveyed the area.

The Mason-Dixon Line

The gradual move of people from the country to cities The gradual move of people from the country to cities. This movement is mostly credited to an increase in jobs made available by the Industrial Revolution.

Urbanization

A person who invested money in industry.

Capitalist

A new idea set forth by Eli Whitney that revolutionized industry by reducing machine down time.

Interchangeable Parts

A tax on imported goods designed to protect a nations industry A tax on imported goods designed to protect a nations industry. These taxes increased the price of goods and were welcomed by the North and hated by the South.

Protective Tariff

The right of people accused of crime to go through the process of law in the United States.

Due Process

He wrote the “Concord Hymn” in 1837 about the battles of Lexington and Concord that started the American Revolution.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American writer who’s novel “Moby Dick” tells the story of a New England whaling captain.

Herman Melville

American writer who’s tales such as “The Raven” and “The Tell Tale Heart” thrilled and scared readers.

Edgar Allan Poe

This writer urged his readers to live as simple a life as possible and pioneered the idea of “Civil Disobedience.” The belief that people have a right to disobey unjust laws.

Henry David Thoreau

American poet who wrote “O Captain. My Captain American poet who wrote “O Captain! My Captain!”, a poem about the assassination of President Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth

Walt Whitman

The term used to describe the 8 years of James Madison’s Presidency The term used to describe the 8 years of James Madison’s Presidency. It was called this because “everyone felt good about the shape of our nations economy.”

Era of Good Feelings

This woman traveled to England for the World Anti Slavery Convention and was not allowed to take part because she was a woman. She came back to America and pioneered the Woman’s Rights movement.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

During the colonial era many Protestants in America believed in predestination or the idea that God decided who would go to heaven regardless of how you lived your life. According to this new movement in the church your actions in life determined who would go to heaven. Churches would hold revivals that lasted for days that attracted thousands of people.

The Second Great Awakening

Born a slave in Maryland he defied the slave codes by learning to read Born a slave in Maryland he defied the slave codes by learning to read. Later in life he escaped and became a public speaker against slavery.

Frederick Douglass

One of the most effective woman’s rights leaders, she was born into slavery in New York . “I have as much muscle as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?”

Sojourner Truth