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Ch.4: Growth of a New Nation
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01/24/2005

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Period of Monroe's Presidency marked by optimism & national unity.
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"Era of Good Feeling"
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Kentucky senator who proposed the American System (balance between those favoring state's rights & strong federal government).
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Henry Clay
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Movement that worked to put an end to slavery
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Abolitionist Movement
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Two individuals who set out from St. Louis to explore the Louisiana Purchase to the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
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Lewis & Clark
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President Monroe's promise to prevent any European nation from recolonizing North & South America
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Monroe Doctrine
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Senator John Calhoun promoted this doctrine; it states that if Congress passes a bill that is harmful to a particular state, that state is not obliged to enforce it.
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Doctrine of Nullification
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Interpreter for Lewis & Clark
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Sacajawea
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Belief that it was God's will that the U.S. expand and possess the entire continent
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Manifest Destiny
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Former slave who spoke for the abolition movement
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Frederick Douglass
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Movement that advocated total abstinence from alcohol
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Temperance Movement
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Andrew Jackson started this policy of removing political opponents from the government and replacing them with political friends.
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spoils system
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Federally funded road that stretched from Cumberland, MD to Vandalia, IL
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National Road
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When Congress protected American industries from competing with lower priced European goods by raising the tax on imports is known as what?
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Tariff of 1816
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George Fox's religious group who believed in personal divine revelation and objected to war & slavery
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Quakers
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A woman who worked for women's right to vote was called what?
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a suffragette
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Network of people who helped slaves escape to the North
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Underground Railroad
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In 1830, all Native Americans were required to move to land west of the Mississippi River. What was this called?
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Indian Removal Act
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Journey of thousands of Creek, Cherokee, & Choctaws who were forced to leave their homelands in the Southeast and move to Oklahoma
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Trail of Tears
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Eli Whitney invented what became the basis for the industrial revolution in the United States. What was it?
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interchangeable machinery parts
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