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34 Cards in this Set
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rural
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farms and countryside
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urban
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“city” area
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industrialization
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the development of industry
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tenements
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crowded apartments with poor standards of sanitation, safety, and comfort
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strike
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work stoppage
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labor union
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organization of workers formed to protect the interests of its members, usually involving issue that have to do with wages and working conditions
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cotton belt
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the band of states stretching from South Carolina to Texas
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Turner's Rebellion
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a violent uprising that was carried out in August of 1831 by Nat Turner
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patronage
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the giving of jobs from public officials to close friends or family
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spoils system
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Jackson's own form of patronage
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Tariff of 1828
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a heavy tax on imports designed to boost American manufacturing
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nullify
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to reject
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States' rights
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the power that the Constitution neither gives to the federal nor denies to the states
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secede
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to withdraw
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Indian removal act
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allowed the president to give native Americans land in parts of the Louisiana purchase in exchange for land taken from the in the east
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Trail of Tears
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a nightmare journey that was endured by the Cherokee for 116 days, in which 1 of every 4 of them died
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Black Hawk War
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The clashes that followed Black Hawk leading some native Americans back to their fertile lands
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Second Seminole War
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A bloody war between the Seminoles and white settlers in Florida that lasted 7 years
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Industrial revolution
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effort to increase production by using machines powered by sources other than humans or animals
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Interchangeable parts
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A system of manufacturing in which all parts are made to an exact standard for easy mass-assembly.
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Cotton gin
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Machine that separates seeds from the raw cotton fiber.
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Patent
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a license that gives an inventor the right to sell one of his inventions for a certain amount of time.
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Market revolution
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Shift from a home based often agricultural, economy to one based on money and the buying and selling of goods.
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Manufacturing
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Making goods by machinery.
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Centralized free enterprise system
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an economic system in which private companies compete for profits.
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Specialization
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In production a system in which each worker performs.
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Investment capital
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Money that a company spends in hope for a gain in the future.
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Bank note
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Piece of paper that a bank issues to its customers and that can be exchanged for gold or silver coins.
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Section
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A Geographic region.
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Dartmouth college v. Woodard
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1819 case in which the supreme court ruled that states could not interfere with private family contracts
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McCulloch v. Maryland
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1803 supreme court case that established the principle of judicial review.
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Gibbons v. Ogden
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1824 case in which the supreme court ruled that states could not regulate commerce on interstate waterways.
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Monroe doctrine
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doctrine in 1823 that the united states would oppose efforts by any outside power to control a nation in the western.
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American system
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a combination of government- backed economic development and protective tariffs aimed at encouraging to the New Deal.
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