Apush Chapter 9

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Alexis de Tocqueville

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French political thinker best known for his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution

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Democracy in America

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French book by Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy

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John Jacob Astor

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The first multi-millionaire in the United States. He was the creator of the first trust in America.

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Jedidiah Smith, Kit Carson, Jim

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Explorers of Western territories, and the first to reach the Oregon Country besides Lewis and Clark

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Beckwourth

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An American mountain man, fur trader, and explorer that was originally a Virginia slave

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National Road

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The Cumberland Road was the first major improved highway in the United States to be built by the federal government.

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Five Civilized Tribes

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The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes.

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Indian Removal Act of 1830

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Law signed by President Andrew Jackson to move Native Americans onto reservations.

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Cherokee Indians

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Tribe moved from North Carolina to reservations in the Western Territories

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Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

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Case between Cherokee Nation and Georgia over whether the government could remove Natives from their homelands.

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Trail of Tears

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Journey taken by the Five Civilized Tribes to reservations, by order of President Jackson

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Black Hawk War

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Short conflict between Natives and Americans over the land

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Eli Whitney’s cotton gin

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Machine that removed seeds from cotton, led to the hiring of even more slaves to reservations

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market economy

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Market in which economic decisions are based on supply and demand

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western land speculation

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the buying and selling of land for a higher price for no other purpose but for profit

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Panic of 1819

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Financial crisis occurring in the Era of Good Feelings

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Robert Fulton

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American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat.

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Gibbons v. Ogden

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Court case over who had the right to sail steamboats in New York City.

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Erie Canal

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Canal built that connected the East Coast to the Great Lakes

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Transportation Revolution

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Age in which more efficient forms of travel such as trains and steamboats were created.

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Samuel Slater

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English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution"

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cottage industry

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Industry in which all manufacturing is done in the home, as opposed to in a factory.

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Eli Whitney’s interchangeable parts

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Parts of an item that are identical so that they can be replaced in case of damage to the original part.

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Lowell girls

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Name for the women of Lowell, Mass. that made up 3/4 of a factory's staff.

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NYC’s Five Points District

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Former neighborhood in New York City

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Richard Allen

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Founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first independent black denomination in the US.

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separate spheres

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Ideology separating men and women into gender classifications

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temperance movement

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Social movement against excessive consumption of alcohol.

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workingmen’s parties

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The first labor related political organizations in the US