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| 6733223228 | War of 1812 | A war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France. | 0 | |
| 6733223229 | impressment | The British practice of taking American sailors from American ships and forcing them into the British navy; a factor in the War of 1812. | 1 | |
| 6733223230 | Treaty of Ghent | December 24, 1814 - Ended the War of 1812 and restored the status quo. For the most part, territory captured in the war was returned to the original owner. | 2 | |
| 6733223231 | Hartford Convention | Meeting of Federalists near the end of the War of 1812 in which the party listed it's complaints against the ruling Republican Party. | 3 | |
| 6733223232 | Louisiana Purchase | Doubled size of US, opened up land for expansion; | 4 | |
| 6733223233 | Erie Canal | Completed in 1825, this water way connected New York City and Buffalo, New York. began era of new transportation | 5 | |
| 6733223234 | Samuel F B Morse | Invented the telegraph and Morse code | 6 | |
| 6733223235 | Eli Whitney | Cotton Gin | 7 | |
| 6733223236 | The Lowell System | textile mill that employed young, unmarried women from local farms. The working conditions were harsh and lead to an 1830s strike and the beginning of the labor movement | 8 | |
| 6733223237 | The Lowell girls | The girls were hired to work in the textile mills because they had small hands | 9 | |
| 6733223238 | Second bank of the United States | a national bank overseen by the federal government. Congress had established the bank in 1816, giving it a 20 year charter. | 10 | |
| 6733223239 | John Calhoun | First vice president during Jackson's presidency, Staunchly pro-slavery vice-president, engineering the Compromise of 1850 and helping further split the nations | 11 | |
| 6733223240 | American System | Economic program advanced by Henry Clay that included support for a national bank, high tariffs, and internal improvements; emphasized strong role for federal government in the economy. | 12 | |
| 6733223241 | James Monroe | The Missouri Compromise in 1821., the fifth President of the United States (1817-1825). acquisition of Florida (1819); the Missouri Compromise (1820), in which Missouri was declared a slave state; and the profession of the Monroe Doctrine (1823) | 13 | |
| 6733223242 | Panic of 1819 | Economic panic caused by extensive speculation and a decline of Europena demand for American goods along with mismanagement within the Second Bank of the United States. Often cited as the end of the Era of Good Feelings. | 14 | |
| 6733223243 | Missouri Compromise | "Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states. | 15 | |
| 6733223244 | Monroe Doctrine | A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere. | 16 | |
| 6733223245 | Corrupt Bargain | Refers to the presidential election of 1824 in which Henry Clay, the Speaker of the House, convinced the House of Representatives to elect Adams rather than Jackson. | 17 | |
| 6733223246 | John Quincy Adams | 6th president after Monroe | 18 | |
| 6733223247 | Martin Van Burren | eighth president, succeeded Jackson | 19 | |
| 6733223248 | Spoils System | "rotation in office;" Jackson felt that one should spend a single term in office and return to private citizenship, those who held power too long would become corrupt and political appointments made by new officials was essential for democracy. Jackson then appointed officials he favored | 20 | |
| 6733223249 | South Carolina Ordinance | ordinance of nullification that repudiated the federal tariff acts of 1828 and 1832o | 21 | |
| 6733223250 | Nicholas Biddle | President of the Second Bank of the United States; he struggled to keep the bank functioning when President Jackson tried to destroy it. | 22 | |
| 6733223251 | Indian Removal Act (1830) | Signed into law by President Andrew Jackson, strongly supported by the South whom was eager to gain access to the lands inhabited by the "Five Civilized Tribes." Though the act was intended to be voluntary removal, significant pressure was put onto the tribes' chiefs to vacate and led to the inevitable removal of most Indians from the states | 23 | |
| 6733223252 | Deism | A popular Enlightenment era belief that there is a God, but that God isn't involved in people's lives or in revealing truths to prophets. | 24 | |
| 6733223253 | The Second Great Awakening | (1790-1840s) a series of American religious revivals occurring throughout that eastern U.S.; these revivals encouraged a culture performing good deeds in exchange for salvation, and therefore became responsible for an upswing in prison reform, the temperance cause, the feminist movement, and abolitionism | 25 | |
| 6733223254 | Temperance Movement | An organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption | 26 |
