| Term | Definition |
|---|
| nationalism | extream patriotism |
| sectionalism | devotion to intrests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole |
| Monroe Doctrine | Declared the Americas off-limits to Eurpoean colonization |
| Missouri Compromise | an agreement proposed in 1820 by Henry Clay which allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a Free State |
| Industrial Revolution | period in the 1700s of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production |
| Domestic Policy | consists of all government policy decisions, programs, and actions that primarily deal with internal matters |
| Foreign Policy | set of goals that seeks to outline how the country will interact with other countries |
| Nullification Crisis | was started when Andrew Jackson was president and South Carolina attempted to nullify a federal law passed by the United States Congress |
| Tariffs | Taxes |
| Cotton Gin | Machine that could quickly separate the cotton fibers from the seedpods |
| Know-nothings | secret anti-Irish fraternal organization in the 1800s, later became known as the American Party |
| Reform | change in social and political movements |
| Tenements | housing which were poorly built and overcrowded by immigrants |
| urbanization | process associated with the development of civilization |
| Seneca Falls | First national woman's rights convention in 1848 where the Declaration of Sentiments was written |
| Abolition | repealing an existing practice legal means by either making it illegal or erasing it in anyway so it wont exist |
| Nat Turner | American slave who started a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia; killing white civilians |
| Underground Railroad | the escaping of enslaved people to the North with the help of others by providing transportation and hiding places |
| William Lloyd Garrison | united states abolitionist |
| Fredrick Douglass | born a slave and later became an abolitionist |
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