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27 Cards in this Set
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Patent |
Gives inventor sole legal right to the invention and profits |
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Canal |
Artificial waterway |
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Turnpike |
Toll roads |
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Census |
Official count of the population |
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Disarmament |
Removal of weapons |
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Lock |
Separate compartments where water levels were raised/lowered |
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Capital |
Money |
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John Calhoun |
Politician; believed in states' rights |
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Technology |
Scientific discoveries that simplify work |
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Court Martial |
Tried by a military court |
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Robert Fulton |
Developed the steamboat |
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Adam-Onis Treaty |
Spain gave Florida to the U.S.; U.S. gave up Texas claims |
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Sectionalism |
Loyalty to their region |
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Henry Clay |
Politician; tried to resolve sectional disputes through compromise |
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Eli Whitney |
Invented the cotton gin |
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Monroe Doctrine |
U.S. would not interfere with existing European colonies, but the U.S. would oppose new ones |
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General Andrew Jackson |
Fought Native Americans in Florida |
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Why New England was a good place for industries? |
The number of rivers and streams located there |
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Spinning Jenny |
helped develop clothes faster |
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Erie Canal |
Linked NYC to Great Lakes region |
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Missouri Compromise |
Maine-admitted as free state Missouri-admitted as slave state Banned slavery north of a certain point in the Louisiana Purchase |
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American system |
Developed by Henry Clay; protective tariff that provide the government money, built roads/canals, national bank created to control inflation |
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Industrial Revolution in America |
People worked in factories, people worked long hours, unions formed |
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Gibbons v. Ogden |
gave the federal government control of interstate trade |
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Who was president during the Era of good feelings |
James Monroe |
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Sectionalism |
supporting a region of the country instead of the whole country |
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Rush-Bagot Treaty |
limited the number of naval ships on the Great Lakes |
