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32 Cards in this Set
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Turnpikes
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Roads for which users had to pay a toll
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National Road
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The country's lone decent route, which was made of crushed rock
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Erie Canal
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Best-known canal of the early 1800s
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Industrial Revolution
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The developments in technology that transformed manufacturing
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Samuel Slater
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The first builder of textile mills
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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The developer of the first fully operational mill.
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"Lowell girls"
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Young women who worked at the Lowell mills.
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Interchangeable parts
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identical components that could be used in place of another.
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Eli Whitney
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The inventor of interchangeable parts.
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Samuel F.B. Morse
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The inventor of the electric telegraph.
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Tariff of 1816
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A tariff on imports designed to protect American industry
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Capital
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The money needed to build factories or other productive assets.
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Labor unions
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Groups of workers who unite to seek better pay and conditions.
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Cotton gin
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A machine that reduced the amount of time and the cost of separating the cotton seeds from the valuable white fiber.
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Nationalism
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A glorification of the nation that took place in the U.S.
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Henry Clay
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One of the leading advocates of this new economic nationalism
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American System
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An ambitious federal program which involved building new roads and canals to link the Atlantic states with the Midwest
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John Quincy Adams
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James Monroe's Secretary of State and the son of former President John Adams
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Adams-Onis Treaty
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Ended Spanish claims to Florida and the vast Pacific Coast territory of Oregon
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Monroe Doctrine
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Responded to treats by European powers
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Missouri Compromise
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Compromise in which the northern district of Massachusetts would enter the Unions as the free state of Maine to balance admission of Missouri as a slave state
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Caucus
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A closed meeting of party members for the purpose of choosing a candidate
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Andrew Jackson
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War hero who ran for the presidential election against Henry Clay and won.
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Martin Van Buren
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He worked behind the scenes to build support for Jackson.
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Jacksonian Democracy
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The movement in which Andrew Jackson became the symbol of American democracy.
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Spoils system
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A practice in which the use of political jobs was a reward for party loyalty
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Indian Removal Act
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An act that sought to peacefully negotiate the exchange of American Indian lands in the South for new lands in the Indian Territory
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Trails of Tears
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A walk from the Cherokees' lands in the Southeast to Oklahoma.
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Tariff of Abominations
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What Southerners called an especially high tariff.
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Joh C. Calhoun
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Jackson's Vice President from South Carolina.
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Nullification
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The act of voiding any federal law deemed unconstitutional
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Whigs
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A new political party formed the Bank's friends
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