| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Industrialization | the shift of goods being produced by craftsmen to goods being produced mostly by machines in factories |
| Henry Clay's American System | an economic plan which had a high tax on goods produced outside of the US and a national bank to promote a single currency |
| Great Irish Famine | the potatoe disease which caused 25 % of a population to leave their homeland |
| David Walker | a free black man, living in Boston, published a phamplet titled "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" in 1829 |
| Horace Mann | worked with reformers to establish a public education system because he believed that American Constitutional Democracy required citizens who were well informed |
| Susan B Anthony | active in antislavery, temperance, and women's rights movements |
| Louisa May Alcott | author of "Little Women" |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | author of "The Scarlett Letter" |
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