US History Honors
Chapter 3 Vocab
Cummings
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| 83850072 | Adams-Onis Treaty | Transcontinental Treaty; Spain agreed to the loss of Florida | |
| 83850073 | Republican Virtues | The virtues the American people would need to govern themselves in the new republic. | |
| 83850074 | Industrial Revolution | Effort, beginning in Britain in the late 1700s, to increase production by using machines powered by sources other than humans or animals. | |
| 83850075 | Interchangeable Parts | system in which all parts are made to an exact same standard. | |
| 83850076 | Cotton Gin | a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers (gin means machine) | |
| 83850077 | Second Great Awakening | Great religious movement of the early 1800s; Took place among Protestant Christians. | |
| 83850078 | Denominations | religious subgroups | |
| 83850079 | Spirituals | Folk Hymns, Religious folk songs | |
| 83850080 | Manufacturing | the making of products by machinery | |
| 83850081 | Free Enterprise System | changes of the Market Revolution, an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods | |
| 83850082 | Capital | wealth that can be invested to produce goods and make money | |
| 83850083 | Industrialization | growth of industry | |
| 83850084 | Strike | work stoppage | |
| 83850085 | Labor Union | an organization of workers formed to protect interests | |
| 83850086 | Nullify | reject (states had the authority/right to declare when the federal government had exceeded its authority. | |
| 83850087 | States' Rights | the powers that the constitution neither gives to the Federal government nor denies to the states. | |
| 83850088 | Secede | Withdrawal; SC was the first to secede from the Union. | |
| 83850089 | Trail of Tears | nightmare journey; name given by the Cherokees; 116 day forced march, the forced removal of Cherokees and their transportation to Oklahoma | |
| 83850090 | Transcendentalism | philosophical movement of the mid 1800s that emphasized spiritual discovery and insight rather than reason, philosophy that emphasized the truth to be found in nature and intuition | |
| 83850091 | Temperance movement | a campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption; the first and most widespread of the reform efforts of the 1800s. | |
| 83850092 | Abstinence | refraining from doing something; people made pledges to abstain from drinking. | |
| 83850093 | Utopian Communities | small societies dedicated to perfection in social and political conditions | |
| 83850094 | Abolitionist movement | the movement to end slavery; started by a group of free African Americans and whites | |
| 83850095 | Underground Railroad | a network of escape routes that provided protection and transportation for slaves fleeing north to freedom. | |
| 83850096 | Seneca Falls Convention | The first women's rights convention in US history, held in 1848; At this, Stanton herself wrote and presented a historic set of resolutions called a Declaration of Sentiments. | |
| 83850097 | Suffrage | right to vote | |
| 83850098 | Manifest Destiny | undeniable fate; used by John L. O'Sullivan when he captured this sense of mission when he wrote that it was the nation's manifest destiny to possess the entire continent. | |
| 83850099 | Annex | to join or attach; The Republic of Texas voted to be _____ by the US. | |
| 83850100 | Mexican War | Conflict b/w the US and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, ending with a US victory; Polk pushed for the declaration of this war & congress gave it to him. | |
| 83850101 | Compromise of 1850 | proposed by Henry Clay; five separate laws, two of which favored the North and two of which favored the South; Agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories. | |
| 83850102 | Prejudice | an unreasonable, usually favorable, opinion of another group that is not based on fact; Many people were prejudiced against African Americans. | |
| 83850103 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | introduced by Senator Douglas of Illinois; called for the creation of two new territories, Kansas & Nebraska | |
| 83850104 | Nativism | a movement to ensure that native-born Americans receive better treatment than immigrants. | |
| 83850105 | Border States | Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri; a few politicians from these states formed the Constitutional Union Party. | |
| 83850106 | Confederate States of America | aka Confederacy; Association of seven seceding southern states, formed in 1861. | |
| 83851036 | Delaware Maryland Kentucky Missouri | List the border states. |
